EU Considers Initiative to Strengthen International Human Rights |
On October 9, 1998, a group of wise persons appealed to the European Union to strengthen its strategy and prioritization of international human rights, a plea that has important potential... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Europe |
Human Rights, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
British Report on Channel Islands Offshore Will Require Publication of Companies’ Accounts |
In a prelude to one of many controversies over financial supervisory regulation and enforcement and fiscal integrity, a draft recommendation of a British Home Office report in financial regulation on... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United Kingdom |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy |
British Arrest of Pinochet on Spanish Court’s Request for Human Rights Puts Spot Light on Immunities |
On October 16, 1998, the British police arrested and held Gen. Augusto Pinochet on behalf of the Spanish Government who request his extradition in connection with investigations by two Spanish judges... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United Kingdom, Spain |
Extradition, Human Trafficking, Immunity, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
U.S. Appellate Court Overturns Convictions of Offshore Sports Betting and Laundering |
On August 24, 1998, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously overturned the convictions of four persons convicted of multiple counts for their involvement in a gambling operation,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Betting |
ICC Commercial Crime Services and Interpol Agree to Cooperate against Cybercrime |
On September 24, 1998, Eric Ellen, director of the Commercial Crime Center of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) announced that it was establishing a new special unit to combat cybercrime... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
World |
Cybercrime, International Organizations |
U.S. Federal Reserve Will Issue New “Know Your Customer” Regulations |
On October 2, 1998, the Federal Reserve Board approved draft regulations on “know your customer” that will require a higher level of due diligence for banks. Meanwhile, on October 16, 1998, the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy |
Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute Perpetrators of U.S. Embassy Bombings Ensue |
In the third month since the August 7, 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the efforts of the U.S. and other governments to investigate and prosecute the alleged perpetrators... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Afghanistan |
Terrorism, Law Enforcement |
U.S. Announces Indictment and Seeks Custody of Mexican Cartel Leader |
On October 7, 1998, U.S. officials announced the indictment for drug and money laundering crimes against the alleged Juàrez cartel leader Vincente Carrillo Fuentes, the brother of the late Amado... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Money Laundering, Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking |
Council of Europe Opens Convention on Criminal Environmental Law |
On September 9, 1998, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the Convention on the Protection of Environment through Criminal Law, whose goal is to improve the protection of the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Europe |
Environment, International Organizations, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
U.S. and Russian Narcotics Officials Agree to Cooperate |
On July 30, 1998, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Thomas A. Constantine and Russian Ministry of Interior (MVD) First Deputy Minister Colonel-General Vladimir Kolesnikov... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, Russia |
Drugs & Trafficking, International Cooperation |
Review of International Criminal Law in the Netherlands (Bert Swart and André Klip, eds), Freiburg im Breisgau: Ed. Iuscrim, Max-Planck-Inst. für Ausländisches und Internat. Strafrecht, 1997, ISBN 3-86113-960-X). |
The book provides a comprehensive discussion of international criminal law in the Netherlands and results from cooperation between the departments of criminal law of the University of Utrecht (Willem... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Netherlands |
Book Review, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
Illegal Migrant Honduran Children Engage in Drug Sales in Vancouver |
Vancouver police have arrested numerous Honduran children aged 10 to 15 found selling crack cocaine, as indications reveal a trend to employ illegal alien children to sell crack cocaine and other... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, Honduras |
Immigration, Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime |
Colombia Supreme Court Rules Law Reinstating Extradition Not Retroactive |
On October 1, 1998, the Supreme Court of Colombia ruled by a 5-4 vote that a law reinstating extradition cannot be applied retroactively. The law will be critical for a number of the Cali drug... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Colombia |
Extradition, Organized Crime |
UK Overseas Territories Meet on OECD Report on Harmful Tax Competition and Focus on UK Draft Report on “Offshore UK” Islands |
In September 1998, ministers from the UK’s ten overseas territories met in London with officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the UK Treasury, and Inland Revenue to discuss issues,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United Kingdom, UK Overseas Territories |
Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes |
Bibliography of Books |
1. Human Rights
Amnesty International, United States of America Rights for All (1998). (This report reveals a persistent and widespread pattern of human rights violations in the U.S.A.) |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
Argentine Judge Requests Extradition of IBM Employees Despite Lack of Criminal Charges |
A continuing battle between an Argentine federal judge and U.S. authorities is unfolding as the Argentine judge requested the extradition of two U.S.-based International Business Machines executives... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, Argentina |
Extradition, Bribery |
Bibliography of Articles |
1. Adjective Enforcement and Evidence Gathering
R.J. Currie, Peace and Public Order: International Mutual Legal Assistance "the Canadian Way," 7 Dalhousie J. Legal Stud. 91-124 (1998). |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
France Grants Bail to U.S. Fugitive Einhorn in New Extradition Case |
On September 29, 1998, a French court in Bordeaux, France ordered Ira Einhorn released on bail, pending a second U.S. extradition request with respect to Einhorn’s conviction in absentia in... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, France |
Extradition |
Bibliography of Book Reviews |
James Adams, Moonlighting, Book Review, Wash. Post, Sept. 27, 1998, at 28, col. 2 (reviewing Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion and Alexander Cockburn and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
World |
Bibliography, Book Review |
U.S. Appellate Court Orders Production of Freedom of Information Act |
On October 6, 1998, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a district court decision and held that information underlying a requesting state’s extradition request must be produced... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, United Kingdom |
Extradition |