Articles

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Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
U.S. Government Urges European Countries to Facilitate Recovery of Property by Holocaust Victims On August 6, 1998, Stuart Eizenstat, US under-secretary of state, called on countries in central and eastern Europe to remove their legal restrictions on the rights of Holocaust victims to recover... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States, Europe Human Rights, Law of War, Holocaust, Property Restitution
Amezcua Released on Mexican Charges and Rearrested for Extradition On August 4, 1998, José de Jesus Amezcua was rearrested for extradition to the United States after his release from prison following the Eighth Criminal District Court’s dismissal against him of... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States, Mexico Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Extradition, International Cooperation
Swiss Banks Reach Agreement over Holocaust Claims On August 12, 1998, representatives of Swiss commercial banks and Holocaust survivors announced a settlement, in which the banks agree to pay $1.25 billion in reparations to victims of the Nazi area... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 Switzerland Human Rights, Law of War, Holocaust, Property Restitution
EU Initiative on International Tax Enforcement Additional details of the European Commission proposal of July 2, 1998 to strengthen cooperation against tax evasion have become available. As mentioned in the last issue of the IELR, the directive... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 Europe Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes
U.S., Britain and Libya Agree on Plan for Lockerbie Trial in Holland On August 24, 1998, the U.S. and British Government announced a plan originally proposed in 1994 by Libya, to convene a Scottish court in the Netherlands to try two Libyan intelligence agents accused... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States, United Kingdom, Terrorism
U.K. Inland Revenue Requests G8 Elite Tax Evasion Force Nick Montagu, chairman of the United Kingdom Inland Revenue, has urged the G8 Economic Summit countries to establish a multilateral law investigative force to combat tax evasion... [more] Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United Kingdom International Organizations, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes
Pakistan Detains and Deports to Kenya Suspect in US Embassy Bombing On August 7, 1998, Pakistan officials arrested in the Karachi airport Muhammad Sadiq Odeh (also known as Mohammad Sadiq Hoawaida), 34, and turned him over to U.S. officials on August 13. On August 16... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 United States, Pakistan, Kenya Terrorism
Argentina Denies Italian Extradition Request Due to In Absentia Conviction On August 13, 1998, the Argentine Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold an appeals court ruling denying an Italian Government’s extradition for Italian citizen Augusto Cauchi, who is wanted in a 1980... Bruce Zagaris 14 9 1998-09-01 Italy, Argentina Extradition, Terrorism
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
UNDCP Publishes Report on Financial Havens, Bank Secrecy and Laundering On May 29, 1998, the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UNDCP) released a report entitled "Financial Havens, Banking Secrecy, and Money Laundering." Written by four... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 World Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, United Nations, Financial Crimes
U.S. Allows Export of U.S. Software to Countries with Acceptable Laundering Laws On July 7, 1998, the Clinton Administration in a speech by William M. Daley, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, announced that it would for the first time permit the export of strong data-scrambling... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 United States Money Laundering, Trade Enforcement
Dutch Extradition Request for Desi Bouterse Fails Twice For the second time within a year the Netherlands requested the extradition of Desi Bouterse on charges of drug trafficking. Bouterse, who is now State Advisor to the president of the Republic of... André Klip 14 8 1998-08-01 Trinidad & Tobago, Brazil, Netherlands Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking
Yugoslav Tribunal Starts First Genocide Trial On July 6, 1998, the International Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (ITWCFY) opened the trial of Dr. Milan Kovacevic, a Bosnian Serb charged with the crime of genocide. It marks the... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 Former Yugoslavia Law of War, Genocide, International Courts
OAS Approves Plan to Implement Anti-Drug Strategy On May 8, 1998, at its twenty-third regular session, the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission approved an action plan for the implementation of the anti-drug strategy in the hemisphere. This... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 North America, Latin America and South America, Caribbean International Organizations, Drugs & Trafficking
Statute for International Criminal Court Receives Overwhelming Endorsement On July 17, 1997, government representatives voted 120 to 7, with 21 abstentions, in favor of a comprehensive treaty containing a statute to establish an International Criminal Court (ICC). While... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 World International Courts
Two Prominent Lawyers Convicted On July 17 and 20, 1998, a Miami federal jury convicted attorneys Michael Abbell and William Moran of money laundering and racketeering conspiracy in a case that was controversial and has disturbed... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 United States Money Laundering, Drugs & Trafficking, Fraud
AIDP Group Adopts Draft Resolution on International Cooperation and Transnational of Organized Crime During a preparatory colloquium held May 13-17, 1998 in Utrecht, Holland, the Fourth Section of the International Penal Law Association (IPLA also known as AIDP) adopted a draft resolution on “the... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 World Organized Crime, International Criminal and Comparative Law, International Cooperation
EU Considers Proposed Tax Enforcement Directive : On July 2, 1998, the European Commission (EC) proposed a directive to prevent individuals from avoiding taxes by moving, along with their assets, from one European Union member state to another... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 Europe Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes
Canada Leads Arrests of Cuntrera-Caruana Operatives On July 15, 1998, after an eighteen month investigation that almost stopped due to lack of resources on occasions, police in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. arrested ten alleged members of the Cuntrera-... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-08-01 Canada, United States, Mexico Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime

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