Articles

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Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
U.S. and UK Warn Financial Community to Avoid Antigua On April 7, 1999, the U.S. Department of Treasury advised U.S. banks and other financial institutions to further scrutinize all financial transactions routed into or out of Antigua and Barbuda.  Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Antigua & Barbuda Banking Supervision
Former U.S. Journalist Held Hostage in Lebanon Sues Iran Government On March 22, 1999, Terry Anderson, the U.S. national and former journalist who was kidnaped and held hostage for more than six years in Lebanon, and his family sued the Iranian government, seeking $... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Lebanon Kidnaping
Operation Casablanca On March 30, 1999, two large Mexican banks, Banca Serfin and Bancomer, pleaded guilty to money laundering charges.  Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Mexico Money Laundering
U.S. Regulators Withdraw Proposed Know Your Customer Regulations On March 23, 1999, federal regulatory agencies withdrew the proposed know your customer regulations that would have imposed important new due diligence requirements on the private sector. Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 United States Customs Enforcement
UN Will Use Satellite Monitoring to Identify Illegal Drug Cultivation During the third week of March, 1999, the United Nations International Drug Control Program obtained the approval at the annual meeting in Vienna of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to use its own... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 World Drug Enforcement
Pinochet II The House of Lords issued its second substantive decision in the Pinochet extradition case on 24 March 1999 after having revoked the first because of a conflict of interest due to contacts by one of... Dr. Kai Ambos 15 5 1999-05-01 Chile Human Rights
Editor's Note: British Home Secretary Allows Extradition to Proceed On April 15, 1999, British Home Secretary Jack Straw announced he was allowing the Pinochet extradition to proceed, stating the remaining allegations of torture and conspiracy to torture satisfy the... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 United Kingdom Extradition
Mexico Extradites to the U.S. a Mexican National Charged With Drug Trafficking Mexican authorities recently extradited to U.S. authorities a Mexican national charged with drug trafficking and espcaping from a U.S. federal prison. Rodrigo Labardini 15 5 1999-05-01 Mexico Drugs & Trafficking
Mexico Releases Last of 19 Americans Arrested for Arms Trafficking On March 12, 1999, a Chihuahua court ordered the dismissal of all charges against Robert Brown, a Birmingham, Alabama man arrested August 30, 1999, in Juárez on arms-smuggling charges after he... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Mexico Arms Trafficking
French Police and Interpol Penetrate International Vehicle Theft Racket On March 27, 1999, Mexican prosecutors and Interpol announced police have detected and penetrated an international auto theft ring whose members stole luxury vehicles in Mexico and the U.S. and sold... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 France Vehicles
U.S. National Study Will Recommend Banning Internet Gaming On March 19, 1999, the nine-member congressionally appointed National Gambling Impact Study Commission ordered to study the social and economic effects of gambling announced it will seek a broad... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 United States Internet Crime
French Court Dismisses Human Rights Actions Against Castro : On February 26, 1998, Judge Herve Stephan dismissed three civil complaints against Cuban President Fidel Castro, ruling that French law does not cover the alleged crimes... [more] Bruce Zagaris 15 4 1999-04-01 France Human Rights
U.S. Forfeits and Returns to Mexico Stolen Manuscript On February 24, 1999, the U.S. Government announced it obtained an order for the forfeiture of an 18th-century manuscript that had been previously in the Sotheby’s auction house, so that the... Bruce Zagaris 15 4 1999-04-01 United States, Mexico Art and Cultural Property
Report on Convention against Torture Criticizes U.S. Policies : In October 1998, the Coalition against Torture and Racial Discrimination (hereafter CTRD) released a report criticizing a number of U.S. international and domestic criminal law policies and... Bruce Zagaris 15 4 1999-04-01 United States Human Rights
Lockerbie Trial in the Netherlands The United Kingdom and The Netherlands concluded an agreement concerning a Scottish trial in The Netherlands on September 18, 1998. It is the result of a compromise related to the bombing of Pan... André Klip 15 4 1999-04-01 United States, United Kingdom, , Scotland Jurisdiction, Terrorism
Marcos Family Agrees to Pay $150 Million to Satisfy Human Rights Case On February 26, 1999, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. announced in a radio interview an agreement by the family of the late Ferdinand E. Marcos to compensate victims of abuse during his rule who have won a... Bruce Zagaris 15 4 1999-04-01 United States Human Rights
Libya Announces Hand Over of Suspects by April 6 On March 19, 1999, Libya officially told the United Nations it will hand over by April 6, 1999 two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270... Bruce Zagaris 15 4 1999-04-01 Terrorism, United Nations
U.S. Detains Former Ukraine Prime Minister Under Corruption Investigations On February 22, 1999, U.S. Customs Services officials announced the detention on Friday February 19, 1999, of Ukrainian former Prime Minister, Pavlo Lazarenko, who is under investigation in both... Bruce Zagaris 15 4 1999-04-01 United States, Switzerland, Ukraine Corruption
Greek Pros. Rules Pro-Kurdish Greeks Must Face Criminal Prosecution for Helping Ocalan : On March 11, 1999, a Greek prosecutor in Athens ruled that Antonis Naxakis, a retired Greek navy admiral, and Costas Badouvas, a former Socialist deputy, must be prosecuted for arranging the... Bruce Zagaris 15 4 1999-04-01 Greece Terrorism
U.S. Hosts High-Level Anti-Corruption Conference While Olympic Inquiry Recommends Prohibiting Any Country from Hosting Games Without Ratifying OECD Convention On February 24-25, 1999, U.S. Vice President Al Gore opened a Global Forum on Fighting Corruption that was held at the State Department and attended by 89 countries. Meanwhile, on March 2, 1999, an... Bruce Zagaris 15 4 1999-04-01 United States Corruption

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