A Swedish bank announced that it plans to begin disbursing money from dormant World War II-era bank accounts within the next few months. An official with Handelsbanken was quoted as saying that about 15 of 75 account holders would receive the payments and that the majority were Norwegian businessmen who had accounts in Sweden during the war. The announcement came after a government commission investigating Jewish property said it had identified about $925,000 in Swedish bank accounts unclaimed since the end of the war.
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