UN Report Links Liberian President with Illicit Diamond Trade and Rebels in Sierra Leone while UN Peacekeeping Forces Struggle to Keep Order |
On January 5, 2001 the Security Council encouraged all Member States to enforce the embargo of illicit diamonds from Sierra Leone following a UN report exposing widespread violations of the embargo... |
Sashi Selvendran |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
World, Sierra Leone |
Economic Sanctions, United Nations |
The Special Court for Sierra Leone: A New Type of Regional Criminal Court for the International Community? |
Since the end of World War II, the international community has known two different types of international criminal courts trying the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and humanitarian... |
Konstantinos D. Magliveras |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
Sierra Leone |
Law of War, United Nations, International Courts |
US FinCEN Calls for Increased International Enforcement Work |
On September 30, 2000, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Department of Treasury, issued its Strategic Plan 2000-2005 that calls for enhanced efforts to combat international money... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
World, United States |
Money Laundering |
GAO Report on Russian-U.S. Money Laundering Fuels Calls for Strengthening U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Laws |
In a report released October 31, 2000, the U.S. General Accounting Office has indicated the ease with which Russian entities form Delaware corporations to open bank accounts in the U.S. that are used... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
United States, Russia |
Money Laundering |
U.S. Suspicious Activities Report Discloses International Trends |
In October 2000, the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, a joint government-private sector group, published for the first time the Suspicious Activities Report (SAR) Review: Trends Tips & Issues.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
United States |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy |
U.S. Multiagency Investigation Succeeds in Disrupting Mexican Drug Cartel |
On December 14, 2000, in a press conference in Washington, D.C. the U.S. Government announced the arrest of over fifty individuals in ten cities as the result of “Operation Impunity II,” a national... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
United States, Mexico, Colombia |
Drugs & Trafficking |
Consultations in Barbados on OECD Harmful Tax Competition Initiative Yield Progress |
On January 8-9, 2001, the high level consultations on the OECD’s harmful tax competition (HTC) initiative resulted in progress for all sides. The targeted countries and the Commonwealth Secretariat... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
Barbados |
International Organizations, Taxation |
Spain Arrests Gusinsky on Russian Fraud Charge, But Moscow Court Dismisses and then Reinstates Charges |
On December 10, 2000, Spanish police arrested Validimir Gusinsky, a Russian media magnate, on an international arrest warrant issued by the Russian prosecutor general’s office on charges of fraud... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
Spain, Russia |
Extradition |
ICJ Denies Provisional Relief to Congo in Belgian Arrest Warrant against Foreign Minister |
On December 8, 2000, the International Court of Justice by a vote of fifteen to two rejected the Republic of Congo’s request for indication of provisional measures while explaining its decision did... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
Belgium, Congo |
Extradition, United Nations |
Mexico Arrests Individual on U.S. Extradition for Homicide |
On November 29, 2000, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office announced that the Federal Judicial Police agents assigned to the national Central Office Interpol Mexico served the provisional arrest... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Extradition, Murder |
Former Mexico City Mayor and Key PRI Official on Extradition Request |
On December 12, 2000, a Nicaraguan judge ordered the arrest and pre-trial detention of Oscar Espinosa, the former mayor of Mexico City, who has applied for political asylum in Mexico while he battles... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
Mexico, Nicaragua |
Extradition, Fraud |
UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime Gains 124 Signatures on Opening |
On December 15, 2000, 124 countries had signed the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime during a four-day high-level signing conference in Palermo, Italy. 80 additional... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
World |
United Nations, Organized Crime |
German and U.S. Clash Over Efforts to Crack Down on Neo-Nazi Web Sites in the U.S. |
A growing controversy is raging over the German Government’s efforts to stop Neo-Nazi sites established in the U.S. and directed at Germans despite arguments that such sites are constitutionally... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
United States, Germany |
Cybercrime |
European Parliament Approves Establishment of Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit |
On November 14, 2000, the European Parliament approved an initiative to adopt a decision of the Council of the European Union to establish a Provisional Judicial Cooperation Unit, subject to its... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
Europe |
European Union, Mutual Legal Assistance |
Canada Denies Release to Alleged Smuggler Awaiting Deportation Proceedings |
On December 29, 2000, the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board denied for the third time since his arrest on immigration charges in November release for Lai Changxing and his wife, Tsang Mingna.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
Canada, China |
Human Trafficking, Immigration |
U.S. Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control Recommends More Due Process |
On December 4, 2000, the Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control issued a report to Congress pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (“Kingpin Act”) recommending greater... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
United States |
Economic Sanctions, Asset Forfeiture |
U.S. Signs ICC On Final Day for Signing |
On December 31, 2000, President William J. Clinton authorized the signing of the Rome Treaty on the International Criminal Court (ICC), joining more than 130 countries, thereby injecting substantial... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
United States |
International Courts |
U.N. Security Council Passes Resolution to Increase War Crimes Appellate Judges as Chief Prosecutor Calls for Better Cooperation and Bosnian Serb Ex-President Surrenders |
At the end of the 1999, the United Nations Security Council adopted a Resolution to increase the number of appellate judges for the war crimes tribunal, and the war crimes prosecutor accused two... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
Africa, Balkans |
Law of War, United Nations |
Cambodian House Agrees to Establish a War Crimes Tribunal |
On January 1, 2001, the Cambodian National Assembly agreed to establish a tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders, a major step in the U.N.-lead efforts to bring to trial persons in the Maoist... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
Cambodia |
War Crimes |
U.S. Closes Hemispheric Military Academy with Plans to Reopen for Training of Law Enforcement Officials |
On December 15, 2000, U.S. Army Secretary Louis Caldera at a ceremony closed the School of Americas, the Army’s controversial school for Latin American military with promises to reopen under a... |
Bruce Zagaris |
17 |
2 |
2001-02-01 |
United States, Latin America and South America |
Human Rights |