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Offshore Insurers Agree to Study Money Laundering Using Insurance |
At a meeting held in the Bahamas and attended by representatives from eighteen jurisdictions, the Offshore Group of Insurance has agreed to prepare a study of money laundering using insurance. The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
World |
Money Laundering, Cybercrime, International Organizations |
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Jersey Enacts Law to Supervise Investment Managers and Prevent Crime |
In June 1998, Jersey enacted the Investment Business (Jersey) Law 1998 to protect investors dealing with Jersey-based companies and strengthen the supervision over service providers... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
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Fraud |
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UNDCP Publishes Report on Financial Havens, Bank Secrecy and Laundering |
On May 29, 1998, the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UNDCP) released a report entitled "Financial Havens, Banking Secrecy, and Money Laundering." Written by four... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
World |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, United Nations, Financial Crimes |
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U.S. Allows Export of U.S. Software to Countries with Acceptable Laundering Laws |
On July 7, 1998, the Clinton Administration in a speech by William M. Daley, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, announced that it would for the first time permit the export of strong data-scrambling... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
United States |
Money Laundering, Trade Enforcement |
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Dutch Extradition Request for Desi Bouterse Fails Twice |
For the second time within a year the Netherlands requested the extradition of Desi Bouterse on charges of drug trafficking. Bouterse, who is now State Advisor to the president of the Republic of... |
André Klip |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
Trinidad & Tobago, Brazil, Netherlands |
Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking |
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Yugoslav Tribunal Starts First Genocide Trial |
On July 6, 1998, the International Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (ITWCFY) opened the trial of Dr. Milan Kovacevic, a Bosnian Serb charged with the crime of genocide. It marks the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
Former Yugoslavia |
Law of War, Genocide, International Courts |
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OAS Approves Plan to Implement Anti-Drug Strategy |
On May 8, 1998, at its twenty-third regular session, the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission approved an action plan for the implementation of the anti-drug strategy in the hemisphere. This... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
North America, Latin America and South America, Caribbean |
International Organizations, Drugs & Trafficking |
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Statute for International Criminal Court Receives Overwhelming Endorsement |
On July 17, 1997, government representatives voted 120 to 7, with 21 abstentions, in favor of a comprehensive treaty containing a statute to establish an International Criminal Court (ICC). While... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
World |
International Courts |
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Two Prominent Lawyers Convicted |
On July 17 and 20, 1998, a Miami federal jury convicted attorneys Michael Abbell and William Moran of money laundering and racketeering conspiracy in a case that was controversial and has disturbed... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
United States |
Money Laundering, Drugs & Trafficking, Fraud |
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AIDP Group Adopts Draft Resolution on International Cooperation and Transnational of Organized Crime |
During a preparatory colloquium held May 13-17, 1998 in Utrecht, Holland, the Fourth Section of the International Penal Law Association (IPLA also known as AIDP) adopted a draft resolution on “the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-08-01 |
World |
Organized Crime, International Criminal and Comparative Law, International Cooperation |
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Yugoslav Tribunal |
On June 15, 1998, French and German units of the NATO-led peace-keeping force in Foca, southeastern Bosnia, arrested Milorad Krnojelac, 57, a former Serbian prison camp commander who allegedly... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
France, Germany, Bosnia |
Law of War, War Crimes, Torture, International Courts |
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Panama Banking Regime Undergoes Reforms in Supervision |
In the thirty years since the enactment of Cabinet Decree 238 of 1970 as the Banking Law of Panama, the Panamanian banking system has transformed itself from a hub of brass-plate banking companies... |
Alvaro Aguilar-Alf |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
Panama |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, International Banking Supervision |
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Rome Conference for Permanent International Criminal Court Opens |
On June 15, 1998, the Diplomatic Conference on a convention to establish a Permanent International Criminal Court opened with a rapid, no-debate adoption of its Rules of Procedure, including the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
World |
International Courts, Treaties |
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Swiss Indict 3 Swiss Citizens with Bhutto Links for Money Laundering |
On June 2, 1998, Daniel Devaud, a Swiss magistrate in Geneva, announced the indictment of three Swiss citizens linked to the former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, for money laundering... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
Switzerland |
Money Laundering, Corruption, Bank Secrecy |
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EU Concludes “Pre-Accession Pact on Organized Crime” with 11 Applicants |
On May 29, 1998, the European Union Justice and Home Affairs ministers and their eleven colleagues from the countries applying for EU membership (the ten Central and Eastern European countries and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
Europe |
International Organizations, Organized Crime |
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U.N. Drug Summit Adopts Global Strategy |
At a three-day special session of the United Nations General Assembly, June 8-10, 1998, attended by presidents, prime ministers, and senior ministers from 150 countries, a global strategy was adopted... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
World |
United Nations, Drugs & Trafficking |
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U.S. Announces Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime |
On May 12, 1998, on the eve of his departure for the G-8 Economic Summit in Birmingham, England, where transnational organized crime was one of the main subjects, U.S. President Clinton announced an... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
United States |
Organized Crime, International Cooperation |
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Interpol Agents Arrest Italian Wanted for Organized Crime in Italy |
On June 11, 1998, Interpol agents arrested Giovanni Fabbrocino, 28, in Argentina for charges on illicit association, money laundering, and murder in Naples, Italy... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
Italy, Argentina |
Money Laundering, Extradition, Murder, Organized Crime |
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A Critical Analysis of the U.N. Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings |
1. Introduction On 9 January 1998, the General Assembly of the United Nations approved Resolution 52/164 adopting the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings. This is the... |
Konstantinos D Magliveras |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
World |
Terrorism, United Nations, Treaties |
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Bahamas Extradites Swiss Fugitive Financier |
On June 2, 1998, the Bahamian Government extradited Werner Rey to Switzerland on fraud charges in Switzerland over the failure of his business empire in 1991. A Swiss prosecutor and two police... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
8 |
1998-07-01 |
Switzerland, Bahamas |
Extradition, Fraud |