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European Parliament Committee Adopts Report Endorsing Need for EU Anti-Corruption Policy On July 23, 1998, the Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs, chaired by Hedy D’Ancona (PES, NL), unanimously adopted the report by Rinaldo Bontempi (PES, I) on the paper of the European... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 Europe Corruption
Australian Appellate Court Denies New Zealand Extradition Request Based on Delay An Australian appellate court’s affirmance of the denial by a lower court’s decision on an extradition request by New Zealand on a sex crime, due to the unjust and oppressive effects of the delay in... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 Australia, New Zealand Extradition, Sex Crimes
U.S. and Other Countries Act to Ratify and Implement OECD Convention On July 31, 1998, the United States Senate acted to strengthen measures on transnational business corruption in acting to approve ratification of the OECD anti-corruption treaty and implementing... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States, Trinidad & Tobago, Brazil Corruption, International Organizations, Treaties
U.S. Court Denies Fugitive’s Motion to Quash Warrant and Change of Venue On April 16, 1998, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts denied a motion to quash a warrant for arrest of the relator, Shoshannah Eliseba Schweidenback, and denied a motion to... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States Extradition, Jurisdiction
Alleged Drug Trafficker Threatens to Kill U.S. Nationals If St. Kitts Grants Extradition On July 30, 1998, the U.S. Department of State reported that Charles “Little Nut” Miller, whose extradition the U.S. Government has requested from St. Kitts, has threatened to randomly kill U.S.... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States, St. Kitts & Nevis Extradition, Terrorism, Drugs & Trafficking
British Court Agrees to US Extradition Request for One of Three Computer Crime and Credit Card Crimes On June 2, 1998, The Times carried a report of a decision affirming appeals of the denial of extradition to the U.S. resulting from credit card and computer crime offenses.... [more] Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States, United Kingdom Extradition, Financial Crimes, Computer Crimes
U.S.-Austrian MLAT Takes Effective On August 1, 1998, the Agreement on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between the U.S. and Austria, signed on February 23, 1995, became effective. The signatories exchanged instruments of... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States, Austria Mutual Legal Assistance, White Collar Crime
U.S. Agrees to Help Turkey Combat Tax Crimes On August 10, 1998, the Turkish Anatolia news agency reported that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will instruct Turkish tax officials on combating tax crimes, such as tax evasion...[more] Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States, Turkey International Criminal and Comparative Law, Tax Crimes
Caribbean Judicial Conference Proposes New Cooperative Arrangements On August 4-7, 1998, the University of the West Indies (UWI)/United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) hosted a regional judicial symposium on anti-money laundering, criminal... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 Caribbean Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture, Conferences, International Criminal and Comparative Law, International Cooperation
Western Hemisphere Law Enforcement Officials Hold Conference on Stemming Illegal Export of Firearms On August 17, 1998, law enforcement authorities from 24 countries in the Western Hemisphere met in Miami Beach to discuss cooperation to slow the illegal trade in firearms...[more] Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 North America, Latin America and South America, Caribbean Arms Trafficking, Conferences
Latin American Leaders Decry Difficulties in Extraditing Political and Business Leaders Charged with Corruption from South Florida Increasingly, persons charged with corruption in Latin America find refuge in Miami and South Florida and in many other parts of the U.S. The latest ire from Latin America has occurred in Ecuador as... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 United States, Latin America and South America Corruption, Extradition
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS 1. Comparative Criminal Law Marina Braun & Galina Clothier, American-Russian Legal Dictionary: Criminal Law (Westport, CT, Greenwood 1998). 2. International Criminal Law in General... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 World Bibliography
U.S. Courts Grants Extradition to Mexico of Mexican on Firearms Charges On May 8, 1998, Magistrate Cynthia G. Aaron, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, found Gabriel Alfredo Valdez-Mainero extraditable to Mexico. His extradition was requested... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 United States, Mexico Extradition, Arms Trafficking
Bibliography of Articles 1. Banking Privacy and Money Laundering K.L. Case, The Saiwa Wake-up Call; The Need for International Standards, 26 Ga. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 215-31 (1996). John K.F. Delaney, Impact of Money... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 World Bibliography
English Court Upholds Extradition Under Provisional Arrest On October 27, 1997, the Queens Bench Division upheld an extradition order, in a case in which Q was detained under a provisional warrant for committing an armed robbery in Germany, which raises the... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 Germany, United Kingdom Extradition, Robbery
Book Reviews Joanne Greig, Combatting Money Laundering, 8 Crim. L.F. 485-96 (1997) (reviewing Money Laundering and Banking Secrecy: XIVth International Congress of Comparative Law (Paolo Bernasconi, ed.)). Guy... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 Book Review
Canadian Supreme Court Overrules Lower Court Requirement of Prior Judicial Authorization for MLAT Request In a ruling that brought relief to the Department of Justice of Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada recently set aside the judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal and held that the Canadian standard... Kirk W. Munroe 14 8 1998-08-01 Canada, Switzerland Mutual Legal Assistance
U.S. Supreme Court Holds Forfeiture of Outbound Passenger Currency Is Excessive On June 22, 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision held that the forfeiture of $357,144 worth of undeclared currency of a passenger preparing to board an international flight violated the... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 United States Asset Forfeiture
Swiss Court Indicts Bhutto’s Husband and Prepares Indictment against the Former Prime Minister On July 17, 1998, Judge Daniel Devaud indicted Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, on money laundering charges and, according to press reports,... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 Switzerland Money Laundering, Corruption
OECD Evaluates Progress on Implementation of Anti-Corruption Agreement On July 15-16, 1998, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) held a meeting on “National and International Approaches to Improving Integrity and Transparency in Government”... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 OECD Corruption, International Organizations

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