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FATF Decides to Keep Blacklist and Expand its Campaign |
On October 4-6, 2000, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) met in Madrid to discuss its strategy to expand the anti-money laundering enforcement regime.
At a news conference on... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Europe, Spain |
Money Laundering, Mutual Legal Assistance |
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UN Considers Potential of Prosecuting Minors for War Crimes in Sierra Leone |
On October 4, 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed that a war crimes tribunal should prosecute minors as young as 15 for atrocities perpetrated during the Sierra Leone civil war... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Sierra Leone, Togo |
Human Rights, United Nations, War Crimes, International Courts |
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Jersey Issues New Guidance Notes and Receives Approval for US Qualified Intermediary Status |
On August 23, 2000, the Jersey Financial Services Commission issued an Anti-Money Laundering Guidance Update that provides guidance to the financial services industry, especially in doing business... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United Kingdom, Antigua & Barbuda, |
Money Laundering, Jurisdiction |
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Kofi Annan Urges Ratification of Rome Statute as U.S. Deliberates Its Position |
On September 29, 2000, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed to U.S. lawyers to convince their
skeptical nationals of the benefits of the embryonic International Criminal Court. Meanwhile,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States |
United Nations, War Crimes, International Courts |
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Bolivia Arrests Belgian Miner for Illegal Import and Possession of Drug Precursors |
During the last week of August, the Bolivian police arrested a Belgian citizen on counts of illegal import and possession of sulphuric acid. The man, previously an employee of a Belgian humanitarian... |
Tom L.W. Scheirs |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Bolivia, Belgium, Chile |
Customs Enforcement, Drugs & Trafficking |
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UN Peacekeeping Forces in Sierra Leone Encounter Difficulty as UN Approves Diamond Certification |
The latest difficulty to plague the peacekeeping forces in Sierra Leone occurred on September 20, 2000 when India announced it would be gradually withdrawing troops from Unamsil (United Nations... |
Sashikala Selvendran |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Sierra Leone, India |
United Nations, War Crimes |
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District Court Approves Enforcement of French Tax Request |
On December 1, 1999, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted summary judgment to the U.S. Government to enforce an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) administrative summons... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, France, Congo |
Taxation, International Courts |
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2 Sets of Indictments for Immigration Fraud and Smuggling |
The U.S. Government has brought two indictments against lawyers and professional immigration advisors – one indictment for immigration and investment fraud and the second for immigration smuggling... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, China |
Customs Enforcement, Immigration |
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Judge Awards Family of U.S. Kidnapping Victim $355 Million Against Iran |
On September 21, 2000, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order awarding $333 million in damages against the Iran Government in favor of the family of Marine Lt. Colonel... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, Iran |
Human Rights, War Crimes, International Courts |
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Hit and G-7 Members Browbeat IFIs Into Jumping on the Bandwagon |
On September 25, 2000, Frances Horner, head of the OECD’s tax competition unit, said that the OECD is trying to accelerate talks with the havens in response to complaints the process is causing... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, Barbados, Europe, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Antigua & Barbuda, Cayman Islands, Luxembourg |
Taxation, European Union |
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House of Lords Affirms Extradition to US for Probation Violation |
On June 15, 2000, the House of Lords unanimously affirmed the extradition to the U.S. of Mr. Burke whose extradition was requested after he violated his supervised release.
On September 14, 1992,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, United Kingdom |
Extradition |
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EU Adopts Convention to Strengthen Mutual Assistance, Especially in Certain Crimes |
On August 24, 2000, the European Union took a practical step to combat serious organized crime by establishing Eurojust, a judicial coordination unit.
The goal of the initiative is to urgently... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Europe |
Money Laundering, Taxation, European Union, International Courts, Organized Crime |
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U.S. District Court Requires Release |
On June 28, 2000, the U.S. District Court in Tampa granted a Motion for Summary Judgment to a publishing and media companies and order the U.S. Department of Commerce to release records from 1996 to... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, Cuba |
Customs Enforcement, National Security |
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Germany and Lithuania Restore Cultural Property |
During a one week period, German and Lithuania acted to restore art taken during World War II.
2. German Restoration
On September 25, 2000, two German museums at a Berlin ceremony returned more... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Germany, Lithuania |
Customs Enforcement, War Crimes |
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U.S. Antitrust Head Calls for Global Forum and Initiative for Antitrust Enforcement Cooperation |
On September 14, 2000, Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, called for initiatives and a new forum to strengthen antitrust enforcement... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, Belgium |
Customs Enforcement, Economic Sanctions, Economic Integration |
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Recommends Ratification of Criminal Cooperation Treaties |
The extradition treaties involved are Paraguay, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Belize.
On September 12, 2000, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate held a hearing on and then approved... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, France, Nigeria, South Africa, Greece, Egypt, Ukraine |
Customs Enforcement, Extradition, European Union, Mutual Legal Assistance |
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Supervisory Committee Issues First Report on OLAF and Warns of Operational Problems |
At the end of its first year of operation, the Supervisory Committee for OLAF – the European Union’s Anti-Fraud Office – has issued its first annual report. This report, apart from evaluating the... |
Tom L.W. Scheirs |
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11 |
2000-11-01 |
Europe |
European Union, Fraud |
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FBI Detects Fraud in Panama Bonds |
On October 5, 2000, the media reported the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation had detected an attempt to market bonds alleged in the amount of $100 million supposedly for the municipality of Colón... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, Panama |
Fraud |
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OAS Ministers of Justice Hold Third Meeting |
On March 1-3, 2000, the third meeting of the Ministers of Justice or of Ministers of Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA) took place.
Two areas that were the subject of focus were cyber crime... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Canada, United States, Latin America and South America, Caribbean |
Cybercrime, Administration of Justice, Mutual Legal Assistance |
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Kosovo Local Court Sentences Serb Student for War Crimes |
On September 20, 2000, a local court with Kosovo Albanian judges and one French judge sentenced Milos Jokic, 21, to 20 years in prison for killing ethnic Albanians in the first trial for war crimes... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
France, Albania, Serbia |
Extradition, Human Rights, War Crimes, Genocide |
