The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Friday to freeze the assets of exiled Liberian leader and indicted war criminal Charles Taylor.
The resolution requires all countries to freeze funds, financial assets “and economic resources owned or controlled directly or indirectly” by Mr. Taylor, his wife and son, as well as others on a sanctions committee list to be circulated to the 191 UN member states.
Mr. Taylor fled into exile in Nigeria on Aug. 11 as rebels laid siege to the Liberian capital, Monrovia. He faces war crimes charges by a UN-backed tribunal for his alleged role in a brutal insurgency in Liberia's neighbour Sierra Leone.
