Tim Osborne, a director for Group Menatep, which is based in London and is the holding company for the investments of Yukos's founder, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, said "the Russian government is knowingly expropriating assets, thereby Gazprom or whomever buys and finances the auction, including the banks, benefit from illegal expropriation".
In Peru, miners feared that Ollanta Humala, the new president, might expropriate assets.
They are rarely as efficient or capable as their private partners, and often run expropriated assets into the ground.
Mr Capriles opposes nationalising more businesses, arguing that it discourages investment, but has said he would not automatically return expropriated assets to private owners.
Regulators could, in theory, levy stiffer penalties by expropriating those assets.
An international arbitration court ruled last year that Russia must pay $50bn to the firm's former shareholders for expropriating its assets.
The early years saw him embrace faraway Soviet Union and reject the United States next door, expropriating American assets in the name of his revolution.
Between 1961 and 1965, the United States applied sanctions against the Dominion of Ceylon (what is now Sri Lanka) after the socialist government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike was accused of expropriating the assets of U.S. and British oil companies.
As I wrote in The New Yorker this summer, I.S.D.S. provisions have been a common part of trade agreements for fifty years, and they were originally intended to protect companies against foreign governments expropriating their assets or discriminating against them in favor of domestic competitors.
As I wrote in The New Yorker this summer, I.S.D.S. provisions have been a common part of trade agreements for fifty years, and they were originally intended to protect companies against foreign governments expropriating their assets or discriminating against them in favor of domestic competitors.
Chávez looked paler, his face swollen, but was as expansive as ever, announcing that Venezuela would refuse to participate in a World Bank arbitration panel that could award billions to ExxonMobil after Chávez expropriated its assets, and implementing a new social program with the Orwellian name the Great Mission Knowledge and Work.
