A Miami judge cut off Ecuador’s long reach into the U.S. judicial system, halting the country’s effort to recover assets from two fugitive banker brothers accused of looting one of the country’s biggest banks in the 1990s.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge John W. Thornton found decisions made in Ecuador to seize the assets of Roberto and William Isaias failed to meet the standards of U.S. constitutional law.

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