They doubt that he will actually seize farms without paying for them.

In late September 2009, it was brought to light that Nestlé was buying milk from illegally seized farms currently operated by Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace Mugabe.

Thục used his position to seize farms, businesses, urban real estate, rental property and rubber plantations for the Catholic Church and to enrich his immediate family.

U.N. monitors fault leftist rebels for seizing new farms after the cease-fire, and for providing lists of only a portion of the weapons they are supposed to surrender.

The Mugabe administration previously seized white-owned farms and gave them to blacks, damaging machinery in the process.

Neighboring Zimbabwe, where the government has seized farms from thousands of white commercial farmers, has demonstrated how extreme measures can plunge a country into economic ruin, racial violence and widespread suffering.

They say Mr. Mugabe has been demonized in the West because he decided to seize white-owned farms on land stolen from blacks during British colonial rule.

According to prosecutors, witnesses have claimed that the former President of Congress met with paramilitary leaders in 1998 to jump start a strategy to seize farms in several departments.

Immediately after his extradition Colombian police seized Mancuso's luxury ranches, farms and plots of land, with a combined property value of US$25 million.

The party had gained considerable attention when the police had forcibly seized farms whose owners had not paid their taxes.