Provisional Seizure of Cash Bank Deposits and its Status in Syria


Abstract in English

The purpose of the research is to explain the rules of provisional seizure regarding cash deposit in the bank, by applying the rules of provisional seizure of the debtor's movable assets under the possession of others in Civil Procedures Law. showing the recent concept taken by the Syrian Bank Secrecy Law to depart from these rules for the purpose of protecting the secrecy of bank accounts and depositors information in Legislative Decree No. 33 of 2010, which prevented provisional seizure of bank accounts except for exceptional cases . Based on the study of these rules, the research aims to introduce some proposed amendments to the bank secrecy law in Syria in this regard.

References used

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المرسوم التشريعي الخاص بمكافحة غسل الأموال وتمويل الإرهاب رقم 33 لعام 2005.

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