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But it exonerated the banks of charges that they systematically destroyed records to keep the victims' assets for themselves.

Five years ago, Swiss banks were at the center of an international dispute over their handling of Holocaust victims' assets.

Representative Rick A. Lazio, a member of the commission that sought the victims' assets here, was also at the Oval Office ceremony.

Also included are records from the Commission on Holocaust Assets, which investigated what happened to victims' assets that came under American control during and after World War II.

The report concluded that American authorities in Europe had made "extraordinary efforts" to find, safeguard and return art and other victims' assets but that their work had been compromised by conflicting wartime and occupation priorities and occasional acts of thievery by G.I.'s.

In fact, despite the relative secrecy in which hedge funds operate, the SEC has a solid record of uncovering hedge-fund fraud and recovering a portion of the victims' assets.

He was a member of the International Panel of the Commission of Enquiry into the Activities of Nazism in Argentina (CEANA) which was established in 1997 to identify Nazi war criminals who had emigrated to Argentina, and transferred victim assets (Nazi gold) there.

BP, to whom the rig was under contract, set up a $20bn£12.6bnbn) fund to compensate the victims, selling assets as it watched its share price tumble.

But even as President Clinton received the report this afternoon at the White House, American negotiators across town were trying to broker a final deal with Austria and France to compensate Holocaust victims for assets kept in banks, for pension payments that were never made and for insurance claims that were never recognized.

About 36percentt of the companies whose executives completed the survey responded that they had been victims of asset misappropriation -- usually theft or embezzlement -- or some other kind of economic crime in the last two years.

Salzman points out that many victims of asset forfeiture have a much harder time fighting such seizures.