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English Court Upholds Extradition Under Provisional Arrest On October 27, 1997, the Queens Bench Division upheld an extradition order, in a case in which Q was detained under a provisional warrant for committing an armed robbery in Germany, which raises the... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 Germany, United Kingdom Extradition, Robbery
Book Reviews Joanne Greig, Combatting Money Laundering, 8 Crim. L.F. 485-96 (1997) (reviewing Money Laundering and Banking Secrecy: XIVth International Congress of Comparative Law (Paolo Bernasconi, ed.)). Guy... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 Book Review
Canadian Supreme Court Overrules Lower Court Requirement of Prior Judicial Authorization for MLAT Request In a ruling that brought relief to the Department of Justice of Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada recently set aside the judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal and held that the Canadian standard... Kirk W. Munroe 14 8 1998-08-01 Canada, Switzerland Mutual Legal Assistance
U.S. Supreme Court Holds Forfeiture of Outbound Passenger Currency Is Excessive On June 22, 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision held that the forfeiture of $357,144 worth of undeclared currency of a passenger preparing to board an international flight violated the... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 United States Asset Forfeiture
Swiss Court Indicts Bhutto’s Husband and Prepares Indictment against the Former Prime Minister On July 17, 1998, Judge Daniel Devaud indicted Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, on money laundering charges and, according to press reports,... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 Switzerland Money Laundering, Corruption
OECD Evaluates Progress on Implementation of Anti-Corruption Agreement On July 15-16, 1998, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) held a meeting on “National and International Approaches to Improving Integrity and Transparency in Government”... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 OECD Corruption, International Organizations
Financial Action Task Force Releases Annual Report In June 1998, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) released its annual report for 1997-98. The 1997 report was issued the preceding June. The ninth round of the FATF was... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 World Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, International Organizations
World Bank Continues Internal Measures and Initiates Lawsuits to Recover Alleged Corrupt Payments On July 16, 1998, a media report quoted World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn acknowledging the establishment of a special internal fraud team, the hiring of the accounting firm Price Waterhouse... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 World Corruption, International Organizations, Fraud
U.S. Indicts and Seeks Forfeiture of Antiguan Bank for Loan Scam On May 6, 1998, an indictment filed in the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, Florida charges the Caribbean American Bank of Antigua and eight individuals with a loan scam that allegedly bilked more... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 United States, Antigua & Barbuda Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Fraud, Asset Forfeiture
U.S. Supreme Court Limits Self-Incrimination Protection to U.S. Prosecutions On June 25, 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an individual’s right against self-incrimination does not apply to fear of prosecution in a foreign criminal case in the context of a criminal... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 United States Human Rights
U.S. Congress Supports Early Ratification and Implementation of OECD Anti-Corruption Treaty On June 23, 1998, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted out the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Convention to Combat Transnational Corruption (hereafter the OECD... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States, OECD Corruption, Treaties
Sting Operation Breaks Endangered Species Smuggling from Mexico to U.S. On May 30, 1998, the United States Customs Service announced that a threeyear undercover operation in the U.S. and several other countries had broken a smuggling ring for endangered species from... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States, Mexico Environment, Law Enforcement, Wildlife Smuggle
European Parliament Supports Joint Action by EU Members on Enforcement Cooperation Against Credit Card Fraud On May 15, 1998, the European Parliament deputies voted to support joint action by European Union members on exchanging information to combat credit card fraud and other payment card fraud... [more] Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 Europe International Organizations, Fraud, International Cooperation, Law Enforcement
Law of War and Victims Compensation In the wake of the U.S. Government’s report on the role of neutrals in the Holocaust during World War II, the settlement of existing lawsuits and start of new ones continue... [more] Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States, Germany, Switzerland Law of War, Holocaust, Victims Compensation
Neutrals Give Mixed Reaction to U.S. Call to Contribute to Holocaust Victims 1. U.S. Report On June 2, 1998, the U.S. in a supplemental report on the role of neutrals in the Holocaust urged five neutral countries to continue their accountability and make financial... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States, Norway Law of War, Holocaust
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
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
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
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
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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