Articles

E.g., 2025-03
Title Abstract Authorsort ascending Volume Issue Date Published Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
Dutch-Registered Bank Implicated in Suharto Money Laundering Scam According to the information provided by the Dutch media group NCRV on 6 November 2000, the Dutch-registered Indover Bank has been implicated in transactions, resulting in the loss of large sums of... Timur Sinuraya 17 1 2001-01-01 Netherlands, Indonesia Money Laundering, Corruption
Internationally Perceived Threat of Russian Insurance Fraud and Business Risk Management With the increase of the Russian insurance market international exposure, participants (insurance and re-insurance companies and brokers) are being confronted by wide-spread suspicion about the... Timur Sinuraya 21 5 2005-05-01 Russia Fraud
Western Accounting Standards with Regard to the Enforcement of Anti-Corruption Laws on the Russian Corporate Landscape Following the adoption of Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which... Timur Sinuraya 16 2 2000-02-01 Russia Corruption
Russia?s KFM is an Intelligence Services Barely a month after the exclusion of Russia from the FATF ?black list? of cooperative countries, it is becoming clear that Russia has managed to create a viable financial intelligence system. It... Timur Sinuraya 19 3 2003-03-01 Russia Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, International Organizations
Investigation Of Russo-West Illicit Transactions: The Issues Of Financial Information Confidentiality And Legitimate Expectations : Between 1993-1997, under the pre-text of the "Russian Mafia" threat, the Dutch police’s special Eastern European crime task force tried to accomplish the so called “inventarization” (taking... Timur Sinuraya 15 9 1999-09-01 World, Russia Asset Forfeiture
Multi-Million Dollar Frauds Investigated Investigations mounted by the International Chamber of Commerce's (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) during 1989 involved frauds that could have resulted in losses to businesses of up to $121... Tim Whiteman 6 3 1990-03-01 World Fraud
Swiss Court Clarifies Judicial Assistance in U.S. and German Cases Recently, the Swiss Federal Court, the highest court of the Swiss Confederation, granted a request for judicial assistance by the United States for bank account documents.  Interestingly enough, the... Thomas Waffenschmidt 5 9 1989-09-01 Switzerland Adjective Enforcement
Organization of American States and United Nations Resolutions in Support of the Democratic Government of Haiti Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, won its independence from France in 1804 by defeating the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. Haiti occupies one-third of the island of Hispaniola with... Thomas David Jones 7 11 1991-11-01 Caribbean Human Rights
Conviction of Liberian Warlord Puts Spotlight on Universal Jurisdiction and Liberian Accountability On June 18, 2021, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court convicted Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah, 46, of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s first civil war, fought from 1989 to... Theodore David 37 8 2021-08-03 Crimes against Humanity, Criminal Procedure/Proceedings
Global Fight Against Money Laundering: Progress on Paper, Success Elusive The 13th Public Edition of the Basel AML Index highlights a gradual improvement in national systems to counter money laundering – at least in terms of technical compliance with... The Basel Institute on Governance 41 1 2025-01-10 Money Laundering
Switzerland to Return USD 8.5 Million to Peru in Precedent-Setting Case of Non-conviction based Forfeiture It has taken nearly 20 years, but a decision by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court has cleared the way for the return of around USD 8.5 million in corruptly obtained assets to Peru. The money to be... The Basel Institute of Governance 39 5 2023-05-19 Peru, Switzerland Asset Forfeiture, Corruption
First Japanese Denial of U.S. Extradition Request: Economic Espionage Case On March 29, 2004, the Tokyo High Court rejected the U.S. request that a Japanese scientist Takashi Okamoto be extradited to the U.S. to face economic espionage and other related charges. Presiding... Tetsuya Morimoto 20 7 2004-07-01 United States, Japan Extradition, Intelligence, National Security
OECD Criticized Japan for its Laxness in Implementing the Anti-Bribery Convention In March 2005, the OECD published a Phase 2 Report that evaluates the Japanese enforcement of the implementing legislation for the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in... Tetsuya Morimoto 21 6 2005-06-01 Japan Corruption, International Organizations, Bribery
ABA Holds Program on Strengthening the Rule of Law in the War Against Drugs and Narco-Terrorism On October 11-12, 1990, the American Bar Association Standin Committee on Law and National Security and the Center for National Security Law held a program on "Strenghtening the Rule of Law in the... Terry McCormick and Beverly Bertin 6 10 1990-10-01 United States Drugs & Trafficking
Diplomatic Immunity Issues Cause Tensions between the U.K. and Iran Diplomatic tension soared during June within the spehere of UK-Iran relations over the classic public international law issue of the applicability of immunity for diplomats.  Problems began in early... Teri Simmons 3 6 1987-06-01 Iran Immunity
Stricter Enforcement Is Price for Liberalized Trade On August 23, 1988, President Reagan signed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 into law. Teri Simmons 5 2 1989-03-01 United States Jurisdiction
Haiti Progresses in its U.S. Fight to Recover Assets from Deposed President Duvalier and His Advisers The Government of Haiti has had varying results in its legal attempts, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, to recover assets from deposed President Duvalier and his former advisers.  Despite the varying... Teri Simmons 3 7 1987-07-01 Haiti Asset Seizure
House Efforts to Fight Money Laundering Practices Continue On June 9, 1986, the Subcmmottee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance of the House Banking Committee continued its Oversight Hearings on the Money Laundering Control Act of... Teri Simmons 3 6 1987-06-01 United States Money Laundering
Omnibus Drug Bill II: On a Fast Track The drug issue has turned into a potent election-year topic on Capital Hill, with House Democrats and Republicans drating separate anti-drug bills.  The House Democratic version of the bill has the... Teresita Ferrera 4 6 1988-06-01 United States Drug Enforcement
Second MLAT Hearings Spark Debate on Policy Issues On June 14, 1988, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held additional hearings on several policy issues.  The focus of the hearings concerned the right of criminal defendants to use the Mutual... Teresita Ferrera 4 6 1988-06-01 United States Adjective Enforcement

Pages