Turkish Extradition Request to France Raises Issues |
On September 12, 1994, the Turkish Government requested the extradition of Dursan Karatas, the head of the left-wing urban terrorist organization, Dev-Sol. The request raises various issues of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey |
Extradition, Human Rights, Terrorism, Murder |
Canadian Supreme Court Decides Against Hearing Walker Appeal of Tort Suit against U.S. Government |
On August 25, 1994, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that it would not hear an appeal by Kenneth Walker of Richmond Hill, a Toronto suburb, against an appellate court decision reversing a lower-... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Canada, United States, Chile, Bahamas, Ecuador |
Immunity, Jurisdiction, Fraud, Customs, Conspiracy |
XVth Congress of International Penal Law Association Adopts Resolutions |
During September 5-10, 1994, the XVth Congress of the International Penal Law Association debated and passed resolutions on four principal and one newly added resolutions. More than 1,012... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
World, Tunisia |
Environment, Human Rights, International Organizations, United Nations, Mutual Legal Assistance, International Courts, Computer Crimes |
26 Countries Sign Declaration Promising Enhanced Criminal Cooperation against New Transnational Crimes |
On September 8, 1994 twenty-six countries at a meeting in Berlin of the Interior and Justice ministers signed a declaration, promising to assess the potential threat of nuclear smuggling, cooperate... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Europe, Germany |
Immigration, Drugs & Trafficking, Mutual Legal Assistance, Smuggle, Weapons of Mass Destruction |
Highway Robberies of Truck Shipments into Mexico Grow and Cause Adjustments by Truck Companies |
An outbreak of highway theft is effecting truck shipments of toys and other consumer durables from the U.S., causing an assessment of this growing lawlessness and new prevention efforts...(more) |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Intelligence, Robbery, Theft, Vehicles |
Regional Meeting on Phantom Ships and Piracy |
On July 19-20, 1994, the Second Regional Meeting on Piracy was held in Kuala Lumpur and focused on a spate of attacks in the general area identified variously as the Singapore Strait or Malacca... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Singapore, Panama, Philippines, Honduras, Malaysia |
International Organizations, Jurisdiction, Maritime, Robbery, Piracy |
U.S. Government Advocates International Tribunal to Try Alleged Genocide by Khmer Rouge in Cambodia |
On August 23, 1994, a Bangkok newspaper discussed efforts by the United States Government to establish an internal tribunal to try the Khmer Rouge for the massacre of more than 1 million people... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
United States, France, United Kingdom, Cambodia, Vietnam |
Human Rights, United Nations, Genocide, International Courts |
Swedish Government Accuses Russia of Harboring and Employing as a Spy a Swedish National |
On August 3, 1994, the Government of Sweden accused Russia of harboring a convicted Swedish double-agent and using him to spy in Russia, Hungary and Lebanon as recently as this year...(more) |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Russia, Hungary, Lebanon, Sweden |
Intelligence, National Security, International Criminal and Comparative Law, Economic Espionage |
Cuba and the U.S. Reach Accord on Migration Enforcement |
On September 9, 1994, after seven days of talks in New York City, the Cuban and the U.S. Governments reached a narrow agreement on migration enforcement. Under the agreement the U.S. will take at... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
United States, Cuba, Panama |
Economic Sanctions, Human Rights, Immigration, Teaching, Research, Adjective Assistance |
Money Laundering Suppression Act Will Make Foreign Checks, Drafts, Notes, Money Orders and Other Instruments Subject to Reporting Unless Foreign Jurisdictions Have Proper Anti-Laundering Laws |
A new money laundering law, referred to as the "Money Laundering Suppression Act of 1994," has almost been enacted as part of the Community Development Banking Act by the U.S. Congress. It has... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Canada, United States, Mexico |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Smuggle, Banking Supervision |
U.N. Crime Investigations Hampered by Lack of Resources |
A severe shortage of resources has restricted the efforts of the United Nations to monitor human rights abuses in Rwanda and collect evidence on humanitarian and related law of war violations. The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia, tanzania, Zaire |
Human Rights, Law of War, United Nations, War Crimes, International Courts |
Canadian Police Penetrate Organize Crime Drug Ring |
On August 30, 1994, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police realized some of the initial fruits of its infiltration of two large drug-related money laundering networks involving millions of dollars of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Canada, Jamaica, Colombia, Italy, Philippines |
Money Laundering, Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement |
Hungarian Officials Arrest Two Persons on Involvement with Trafficking in Nuclear Materials |
On August 30, 1994, the Hungarian police reported that they arrested two Hungarian nationals for trying to sell 2kg of radioactive material, believed to be uranium fuel rods from the former Soviet... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Germany, Russia, Hungary, Former Soviet Union |
Intelligence, European Union, Arms Trafficking, Smuggle, Weapons of Mass Destruction |
Brazilian Police Bust Organized Crime Cocaine Ring |
On September 9, 1994, Brazilian police arrested Alex Suyanoff, 37 years old and a naturalized American, and announced other arrests and information, revealing successes in penetrating an organized... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
United States, Brazil, Nigeria, Ghana, Denmark |
Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement |
Thai Government Arrest Iranian In Bomb Attack and Intensify Exchange of Anti-Terrorism Intelligence |
The conclusion of a five-month investigation of an attempted truck bombing resulted in criminal charges brought against a suspected Iranian and the release of two other Iranians for lack of evidence... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Iran, Israel, Argentina, Thailand |
Intelligence, Terrorism, Murder, European Union, Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime, Theft |
Mexico Increases Transfer Pricing Method Audits and Increases Tax Enforcement Cooperation with U.S. |
The Government of Mexico has taken steps to increase its audits of international transfer pricing while it has extended its tax information exchange cooperation with the U.S. and is discussing... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Canada, United States, Mexico |
Taxation, Treaties, Tax Enforcement, International Cooperation, Tax Crimes |
Caldera Tries to Give Regional Anti-Corruption Effort a Push |
During the meeting on September 7-11, 1994, of the heads of government meeting of the Group of Rio which consists of the countries of the Organization of American States, Venezuelan President Rafael... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
United States, Brazil, Venezuela |
Corruption, International Organizations, Drugs & Trafficking, Fraud |
Austrian Activist Lured into and Arrested in Italy for Alleged Terrorism Activities |
On August 14, 1994, Austrian Karola Unterkirchner, who had been convicted and sentenced in absentia to 12 years imprisonment in Bolzano, Italy for alleged participation in a series of attacks carried... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
Italy, Austria |
Extradition, Jurisdiction, Terrorism |
Bibliography of Books, Articles and Documents |
Books
1. Adjective Assistance
André Huet and Renée Koreing-Joulin, DROIT PÉNAL INTERNATIONAL (International Criminal Law) (439 pp. 1994 Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 158 ff.)
(This is a... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
Norway Agrees to Extradite Iranian Hijackers to Russia |
On August 23, 1994, the Ministry of Justice of Norway agreed to extradite to Russia three Iranian nationals who hijacked an Aeroflot airliner to Oslo last year following a decision by the Norwegian... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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1994-10-01 |
United States, Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Former Soviet Union |
Extradition, Human Rights, Terrorism |