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With municipal bond investigations spreading to Europe from the United States, Italian authorities have seized about $300 million in assets of four global banks — JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, UBS and Depfa — whose officials have been accused of fraud.

Officials say that they have seized about $24 million in assets linked to suspected terrorists since Sept. 11, not including hundreds of millions of dollars tied to the Taliban ruling party in Afghanistan, some of that impounded well before the latest terrorist strikes.

Italian police have seized about $6 trillion of fake US Treasury bonds in Switzerland.

This year, the police have seized about 1,200 cases of fireworks so far.

The police in Staten Island and on Long Island have seized about $120,000 worth of illegal fireworks, officials said.

Mr. Graveline said the authorities have seized about 100 firearms, including some illegal short-barrel rifles and machine guns, and 148,000 rounds of ammunition from the defendants' homes.

The numbers underlined the scale of the tactic of mass abduction used by Boko Haram, which according to Amnesty International has seized about 2,000 women and girls since the start of last year.

The Chinese region reported Thursday that its customs agents had seized about 7.9 tons of ivory tusks valued at approximately $72 million.

The police said they had seized about $32 million in ill-gotten gains.

The police said they had seized about $32 million from those involved during the investigation.

All told, the government says it has seized about 45 tons of cocaine this year.