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Following the revolutions in 2011 in Tunisia and Egypt and 2014 in Ukraine, the
Council of the European Union imposed misappropriation sanctions on people
suspected of corruption from the ousted regimes. These require that any assets
relating to people on the list, including houses and bank accounts, are frozen
in all EU Member States.
