Articles

E.g., 2026-06
Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
State Department Consular Notification and Access As a result of the number of foreign nationals that are arrested in the U.S., the U.S. Department of State has published a “Consular Notification and Access,” which provides instructions for federal... Bruce Zagaris 15 7 1999-07-01 United States Human Rights
EU Carries Out Transnational Corruption Assistance to Central & Eastern European Applicants On September 17, 1998, Mr. van den Broek, an official of the European Commission, provided responses to questions posed by Gerhard Hager (NI) to the Commission on the nature of financial and... Bruce Zagaris 15 7 1999-07-01 Europe Corruption
Italian Court Opens Case for Italians Who Disappeared in Argentina On May 20, 1999, Italian Judge Claudio D’Angelo decided to start an oral and public proceeding, where seven ex-military officials of Argentina will be prosecuted for the disappearance of eight... Bruce Zagaris 15 7 1999-07-01 Italy, Argentina Human Rights
Swiss Court Approves Return of $4.5 Million to Argentina on IBM Bribe Case On June 8, 1999, an investigating judge in Geneva obtained permission from the account holders, all of them former Argentine bankers, to transfer $4.5 million from frozen bank accounts that... Bruce Zagaris 15 7 1999-07-01 Switzerland, Argentina Corruption, Bribery
Trinidad Executes 9 Persons and Other Caribbean Governments Follow Its Lead On June 4, 5, and 7, 1999, Trinidad and Tobago executed nine persons at the gallows (by hanging), triggering a likely trend in other English-speaking Caribbean countries... [more] Bruce Zagaris 15 7 1999-07-01 Caribbean Human Rights
U.S. Extradition Hearing Set for Request for Ukrainian On June 7, 1999, a U.S. District Court in San Francisco set a hearing date for June 21, 1999 on the extradition request by the Ukraine Government for Pavlo Lazarenko, its former prime minister, who... Bruce Zagaris 15 7 1999-07-01 United States, Ukraine Money Laundering, Corruption, Extradition
Defending U.S. Citizens and Corporations in Cross Border Proceedings, Extradition, Mutual Assistance, and Asset Seizures: A French Perspective The irregularity of the formal conditions required for the validity of an extradition request cannot be raised before the extradition court when a court deals with a demand lodged by an individual to... Francois Serres and Miss Elodie LeGal 15 7 1999-07-01 United States, France Comparative and International Law
Mexico Acts Against Illegal Migrants and Child Traffickers Mexican authorities increasingly are encountering and taking action against hundreds of persons without appropriate immigration documents going toward the U.S., some bringing children without proper... Bruce Zagaris 15 7 1999-07-01 United States, Mexico, Guatemala Immigration, Sex Crimes
Portugal Enacts Legislation to Assist International Criminal Tribunals Portugal is in the process of enacting legislation in order to assist the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the Former Yugoslavia. The draft act is now pending before Parliament.... Andre Klip 15 7 1999-07-01 Rwanda, Portugal, Former Yugoslavia International Courts
European Justice and Home Affairs Council Continues Enforcement Cooperation Progress On May 27 and 28, 1999, the Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Union continued to make enforcement cooperation progress at its 2184th meeting. This article summarizes selected... Bruce Zagaris 15 7 1999-07-01 Europe International Organizations
Antigua Arrests U.S. National in Florida Fraud Allegation On May 18, 1999, Antiguan authorities arrested William W. Cooper, a major player in Antigua’s international financial services sector, in connection with fraud allegations pending in U.S. District... Bruce Zagaris 15 7 1999-07-01 United States, Antigua & Barbuda Money Laundering, Fraud
U.S. Closes Anti-Drug Base in Panama and Opens New Missions in Ecuador and Dutch Antilles On May 5, 1999, the U.S. closed its anti-drug trafficking mission in Panama and announced that it would operate missions out of Curacao, Aruba and Ecuador although its overall capabilities would be... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Aruba, Curaçao, Panama, United States, World Drugs & Trafficking
U.S. Gaming Commission Will Recommend Criminalization of Offshore Internet Gaming On April 28, 1999, the U.S. media reported that the National Gambling Impact Study Commission will recommend to criminalize offshore Internet gambling, thereby setting the stage for inevitable... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 United States International Gaming
Bolivia Requests Extradition of Former President and Suspends Counterdrug Efforts On November 1, 2008, Bolivian President Evo Morales of Bolivia suspended counterdrug operations sponsored by the U.S. government. Meanwhile, on November 11, 2008, Bolivian officials said they had... Bruce Zagaris 25 1 1999-06-01 United States, Bolivia Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking, Mutual Legal Assistance, Treaties
IRS Criminal Investigation Division Recommends Stronger International Operations On April 13, 1999, a high-level task force headed by former CIA and FBI Director William Webster, issued a report with recommendations on international operations of the Internal Revenue Service’s... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Bolivia, Canada, Mexico, United States Money Laundering, Organized Crime, Taxation
U.S. Requests Israel to Hold Part of Sheinbein Trial in the U.S. On April 19, 1999, the U.S. Government on behalf of Montgomery County, Maryland’s chief prosecutor, Attorney Douglas Gansler, has sent Israeli authorities a letter, requesting that Sheinbein’s trial... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Israel, United States Extradition, Murder
Recent UN Gen. Assembly Measures to Adopt Instruments Combating International Terrorism Over the years, the international legal community has been successful in adopting a considerable number of instruments addressing specific aspects of international terrorism. These instruments can be... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 World Asset Forfeiture, Terrorism, United Nations
Brazil Transfers Chilean Kidnappers to Chile to Complete Sentences On April 24, 1999, the Brazilian Government announced that on that day it would transfer five Chileans convicted in the 1989 kidnaping of a leading Brazilian businessman to Chile to complete their... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile Kidnaping, Mutual Legal Assistance, Transfer of Prisoners
Council of Europe Anti-Corruption Regime Becomes Operational On May 1, 1999, the Council of Europe “Group of States against Corruption” (GRECO), which the Committee of Ministers established on May 5, 1998, became operational...[more] Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Belgium, Europe, World Corruption, European Union
Brazil Arrests Former Central Bank President on International Tax Charges On April 26, 1999, Francisco Lopes, a former president of Brazil’s central bank, was arrested after he refused to sign an affidavit backing his testimony disputing accusations of income tax evasion... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Brazil, Italy, Switzerland Bank Secrecy, Money Laundering, Taxation, White Collar Crime

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