European Union Justice and Home Affairs Meeting Produces Progress |
At the December 4-5, 1997 meeting of the European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs Ministers, progress was made on a wide range of matters, including the Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
Europe |
International Organizations |
Nazi Gold |
At the first international conference on money and gold stolen from victims of the Holocaust, attended by 250 delegates from 41 countries, some governments committed to $15 million for a new... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
World |
Law of War |
U.S. Drug Office and State Department Release Report on Enhanced Multilateral Drug Control Cooperation |
: In September 1997, the Office of the National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President and the U.S. Department of State, released the Report on Enhanced Multilateral Drug Control... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
United States, Latin America and South America, Caribbean |
Drugs & Trafficking, International Cooperation |
State and Local Governments Consider 90 Day Moratorium on Swiss Nazi Gold Issues |
On December 8, 1997, following a conference in New York of interested state and local governments and interested victims and their representatives concerning reparations for Holocaust victims, key... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
United States, Switzerland |
Law of War |
Philippine Extradition Request to Canada Raises Human Rights Issues |
On December 8, 1997, a hearing in the Ontario Court’s General Division concerned the extradition request by the Philippine Government for the extradition of Rodolfo Pacificador, a Philippine national... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
Canada, Philippines |
Extradition, Human Rights |
New Arrests and Criticisms of Multinational Peacekeeping |
On December 18, 1997, Dutch paratroopers and marines from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia arrested two Bosnian Croat war crimes suspects and then sent them to the International Criminal... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
France |
Law of War, International Courts, Peacekeeping |
Colombian Congress Approves New Extradition Law |
On November 26, 1997, the Colombian Congress approved a new extradition law that will enable its government to extradite nationals, but only prospectively. Because of the requested U.S. extradition... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
United States, Colombia |
Extradition |
Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group Formed to Combat Organized Crime |
On December 11, 1997, national anti-counterfeiting organizations from leading industrialized countries announced plans to cooperate on responding to the increasing involvement of organized crime in... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden |
Counterfeiting, Intellectual Property, Organized Crime |
Dutch Trial Court Holds Ireland Murder Suspect Extraditable |
On December 9, 1997, Amsterdam district court judges approved the extradition of Brian Meehan, an Irish national wanted for the murder of Veronica Guerin. Guerin, 36 at the time of her death, was... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
Netherlands, Ireland |
Extradition, Murder |
AIDP Colloquium on Organized Crime and International Cooperation |
On May 13-17, 1998, a preparatory Colloquium of the Association International de Droit Penal (AIDP) on Organized Crime and International Cooperation in Criminal Matters will be organized in Utrecht,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
World |
Organized Crime, Conferences, International Cooperation |
Italy Requests Greece to Extradite Italian National |
On November 23, 1997, the Greek police announced the arrest and detention for possible extradition to Italy of Enrico Bianco, 45, a former member of Italy’s far-left Red Brigades terrorist movement... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
Italy, Greece |
Extradition, Terrorism |
Crime Across the World: Is the Rule of Law Being Corrupted? |
On May 22-25, 1998, the Section on General Practice, International Bar Association, is hosting the fourth seminar on the Alleged Transnational Criminal, in Vienna, Austria. Investigators,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
World |
Conferences, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
Book Notes -- International Criminal Law and Procedure (John Dugard and Christine van den Wyngaert, eds.), International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology, 139.95, 524 pp., ISBN 1 85521 835 6. |
This book contains a series of articles on international criminal law. After an introductory summary of the book, Part I, The Nature of International Criminal Law, contains three articles: Georg... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
World |
International Criminal and Comparative Law, Teaching, Research, Adjective Assistance |
CICAD Anti-Money Laundering Experts Recommend On-Going Assessment of Compliance with Standards and Creation of National Financial Intelligence Units |
At its meeting November 4-7, 1997 in Lima, Peru, the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), Organization of American States (OAS), made several decisions and recommendations of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
North America, Latin America and South America, Caribbean |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy |
Canadian Supreme Court Reinstates Extradition for U.S. Money Laundering Sting |
The Supreme Court of Canada recently set aside the judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal and reinstated the extradition order of a Canadian citizen to the United States on a failed money laundering... |
Kirk W. Munroe |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
Canada, United States |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Extradition |
Human Rights Require French Court to Deny U.S. Extradition |
On December 4, 1997, a French Appellate Court in Bordeaux denied a U.S. extradition request for Ira Einhorn, 57, a fugitive wanted for murder charges, because of his conviction in absentia and the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
United States, France |
Extradition, Human Rights |
Materials from the 9th Annual Money Laundering Enforcement Seminar, Nov. 5-6, 1997, Wash., D.C. |
While only some of the materials focus specifically on international aspects of anti-money laundering per se, the sheer quality and diversity of materials, combined with the influence of the U.S.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
World, United States |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy |
Jamaica Withdraws from UN Human Rights Treaty Allowing Defendants on Death Row to Appeal to the UN Committee |
During the third week of October 1997, the Jamaican Government reported that it intends to withdraw from the provisions of the United Nations Convention, which permits prisoners on death row a final... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
Jamaica |
Human Rights, United Nations |
U.S. Law Enforcement Strike Disrupts Mexican-Controlled Methamphetamine Ring |
On December 5, 1997, the U.S. and local government authorities announced they had disrupted one of the largest methamphetamine networks in the U.S. controlled by two Mexican drug groups. The strike... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Drugs & Trafficking |
SEC Obtains Conviction in Transnational Fraud Case |
On November 25, 1997, the media reported a conviction obtained by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in a transnational securities fraud case. Alan Benlolo, a Canadian... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
1 |
1998-01-01 |
Canada, United States |
Human Rights, Fraud |