Russian Mob Increase Prostitute Rackets in Israel |
An investigative report has exposed the increasing trend by Russian organized crime rings to allure Russian women into prostitution rings in Israel. The struggling Russian economy and the fear of... |
Danielle Barranca |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
Israel, Russia |
Immigration, Organized Crime, Sex Crimes, Law Enforcement |
European Parliament Committee Adopts Report Endorsing Need for EU Anti-Corruption Policy |
On July 23, 1998, the Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs, chaired by Hedy D’Ancona (PES, NL), unanimously adopted the report by Rinaldo Bontempi (PES, I) on the paper of the European... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
Europe |
Corruption |
U.S. and Other Countries Act to Ratify and Implement OECD Convention |
On July 31, 1998, the United States Senate acted to strengthen measures on transnational business corruption in acting to approve ratification of the OECD anti-corruption treaty and implementing... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United States, Trinidad & Tobago, Brazil |
Corruption, International Organizations, Treaties |
EU Proposes to Extend Anti-Money Laundering and Strengthen FIU Cooperation |
On July 13, 1998, the European Commission published its second report on implementing the 1991 money laundering directive and announced that by the end of this year or by early 1999 it would present... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
Europe |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, International Cooperation |
Amezcua Released on Mexican Charges and Rearrested for Extradition |
On August 4, 1998, José de Jesus Amezcua was rearrested for extradition to the United States after his release from prison following the Eighth Criminal District Court’s dismissal against him of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Extradition, International Cooperation |
EU Initiative on International Tax Enforcement |
Additional details of the European Commission proposal of July 2, 1998 to strengthen cooperation against tax evasion have become available. As mentioned in the last issue of the IELR, the directive... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
Europe |
Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes |
U.K. Inland Revenue Requests G8 Elite Tax Evasion Force |
Nick Montagu, chairman of the United Kingdom Inland Revenue, has urged the G8 Economic Summit countries to establish a multilateral law investigative force to combat tax evasion... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United Kingdom |
International Organizations, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes |
Argentina Denies Italian Extradition Request Due to In Absentia Conviction |
On August 13, 1998, the Argentine Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold an appeals court ruling denying an Italian Government’s extradition for Italian citizen Augusto Cauchi, who is wanted in a 1980... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
Italy, Argentina |
Extradition, Terrorism |
Australian Appellate Court Denies New Zealand Extradition Request Based on Delay |
An Australian appellate court’s affirmance of the denial by a lower court’s decision on an extradition request by New Zealand on a sex crime, due to the unjust and oppressive effects of the delay in... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
Australia, New Zealand |
Extradition, Sex Crimes |
U.S. Court Denies Fugitive’s Motion to Quash Warrant and Change of Venue |
On April 16, 1998, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts denied a motion to quash a warrant for arrest of the relator, Shoshannah Eliseba Schweidenback, and denied a motion to... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United States |
Extradition, Jurisdiction |
Alleged Drug Trafficker Threatens to Kill U.S. Nationals If St. Kitts Grants Extradition |
On July 30, 1998, the U.S. Department of State reported that Charles “Little Nut” Miller, whose extradition the U.S. Government has requested from St. Kitts, has threatened to randomly kill U.S.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United States, St. Kitts & Nevis |
Extradition, Terrorism, Drugs & Trafficking |
British Court Agrees to US Extradition Request for One of Three Computer Crime and Credit Card Crimes |
On June 2, 1998, The Times carried a report of a decision affirming appeals of the denial of extradition to the U.S. resulting from credit card and computer crime offenses.... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United States, United Kingdom |
Extradition, Financial Crimes, Computer Crimes |
U.S.-Austrian MLAT Takes Effective |
On August 1, 1998, the Agreement on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between the U.S. and Austria, signed on February 23, 1995, became effective. The signatories exchanged instruments of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United States, Austria |
Mutual Legal Assistance, White Collar Crime |
U.S. Agrees to Help Turkey Combat Tax Crimes |
On August 10, 1998, the Turkish Anatolia news agency reported that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will instruct Turkish tax officials on combating tax crimes, such as tax evasion...[more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United States, Turkey |
International Criminal and Comparative Law, Tax Crimes |
Caribbean Judicial Conference Proposes New Cooperative Arrangements |
On August 4-7, 1998, the University of the West Indies (UWI)/United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) hosted a regional judicial symposium on anti-money laundering, criminal... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
Caribbean |
Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture, Conferences, International Criminal and Comparative Law, International Cooperation |
Western Hemisphere Law Enforcement Officials Hold Conference on Stemming Illegal Export of Firearms |
On August 17, 1998, law enforcement authorities from 24 countries in the Western Hemisphere met in Miami Beach to discuss cooperation to slow the illegal trade in firearms...[more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
North America, Latin America and South America, Caribbean |
Arms Trafficking, Conferences |
U.S. Executive Contemplates Alternatives on International Criminal Court |
In shock over the rejection of some of its positions at the conclusion of the conference to draft a statute on the Permanent International Criminal Court, the Clinton Administration is considering... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United States |
International Organizations |
Former Yugoslav Tribunal Operates Under Accusations for Deaths of Detainees |
Two deaths of detainees awaiting trial have stimulated accusations and inquiries into the conditions of pre-trial detention for defendants awaiting trial before the Former Yugoslav Tribunal.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
Former Yugoslavia |
Law of War, Genocide, International Courts |
Swiss Holocaust Settlement Focuses Attention to German Banks and Companies |
The announcement on August 13, 1998 of a settlement between Holocaust victims and Swiss banks focused attention to the German banks and companies and the effort by victims and their heirs to obtain... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
Germany, Switzerland |
Human Rights, Law of War, Holocaust |
U.S. Government Urges European Countries to Facilitate Recovery of Property by Holocaust Victims |
On August 6, 1998, Stuart Eizenstat, US under-secretary of state, called on countries in central and eastern Europe to remove their legal restrictions on the rights of Holocaust victims to recover... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
9 |
1998-09-01 |
United States, Europe |
Human Rights, Law of War, Holocaust, Property Restitution |