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U.S. Charges Former Guatemalan President with Money Laundering On January 25, 2010, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and other law enforcement officials announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Alfonso Portillo,... Bruce Zagaris 26 4 2010-04-01 Guatemala, Taiwan, United States Administration of Justice, Conspiracy, Crimes, Embezzlement, Fraud, International Cooperation, International Crimes, International Law, Jurisdiction, Money Laundering
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Holds Hearing on Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of the United States On February 4, 2010, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of the United States: Four Case Histories. The Subcommittee hearing examined how... Bruce Zagaris 26 4 2010-04-01 Angola, Nigeria, United States Comparative and International Law, Corruption, Crimes, Embezzlement, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision, Intellectual Property, International Cooperation, International Crimes, Money Laundering, Trade Crimes
Africa Union and Liberia Start Anti-Corruption Initiatives On January 27, 2010, Erastus Mwencha, the deputy chairman of the African Union Commission, announced that the African Union Commission will establish a special commission to combat corruption. Also... Bruce Zagaris 26 4 2010-04-01 Africa, Liberia Administration of Justice, Corruption, Crimes, Financial Supervision, International Cooperation, Money Laundering
ICTY Prosecutor Reports on Serbia and Croatia Cooperation At the end of January 2010, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Serge Brammertz reported to the European Parliament on the cooperation of Serbia and Croatia with the Tribunal,... Bruce Zagaris 26 4 2010-04-01 Croatia, Serbia Administration of Justice, Genocide, International Cooperation, International Crimes
Swiss Government Suspends Implementation of UBS Tax Disclosure with US On January 28, 2010, the Swiss government announced it has suspended the disclosure of information to the United States under the agreement reached on August 19, 2009, as a result of a ruling in a... Bruce Zagaris 26 4 2010-04-01 Switzerland, United States Bank Secrecy, Economic Crimes, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision, International Crimes, Privacy, Tax Crimes, Tax Enforcement
UK Supreme Court Orders Identification of Terror Subjects in Asset Freeze Case On January 27, 2010, the UK Supreme Court unanimously ordered the identification of five persons who had their assets frozen by the Treasury for suspicion of supporting terrorist activities. The... Bruce Zagaris 26 4 2010-04-01 Europe, Pakistan, United Kingdom Evidence Gathering, Human Rights, Privacy, Terrorism
U.S. Issues New Indictment Against Bout On February 17, 2010, the U.S. government announced the unsealing of an indictment against Viktor Bout and U.S. national Richard Ammar Chichakli, for allegedly conspiring to violate the International... Bruce Zagaris 26 4 2010-04-01 Liberia, United States Administration of Justice, Conspiracy, Extradition, Financial Crimes, Fraud, Jurisdiction, Money Laundering, Organized Crime, Sanctions, Terrorism, United Nations, Weapons of Mass Destruction
EU and Forfeiture Convert Organized Crime Funds for Development in Italy On December 1, 2009, Pawel Samecki, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, announced the European Union’s contribution in support of the fight against organized crime in southern Italy. The... Bruce Zagaris 26 4 2010-04-01 European Union, Europe, Italy Corruption, Crimes, European Union, International Cooperation, Organized Crime
UBS Issues Code of Conduct on Tax and Financial Crime On January 12, 2010, UBS published a ten-page Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that prohibits its employees from assisting clients in committing tax and financial crimes. The UBS code provisions... Bruce Zagaris 26 3 2010-03-01 United States Economic Crimes, Financial Supervision, Tax Crimes, Tax Enforcement, Taxation
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES I. Books A. Counter-Terrorism and Aliens Terrorism and the Foreigner; a Decade of Tension around the Rule of Law (Elspeth Guild and Anneliese Baldaccini, eds.), Martinus Nijhoff 2007, 431 pp. B.... Bruce Zagaris 26 3 2010-03-01 World Bibliography
UN Panel Characterizes Guinea Incidents Crimes Against Humanity and Calls for Referral to ICC On December 20, 2009, a United Nations panel issued a 60-page report, declaring the massacre and rapes of unarmed protesters at a stadium in Conakry, Guinea as crimes against humanity” and calling... Bruce Zagaris 26 3 2010-03-01 Guinea Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, International Courts, International Crimes, Murder, Rape, Torture, United Nations
Recognition and Enforcement of the Supervision of Probation Measures and Alternative Sanctions within the European Union–An Update Following the publication of the modified version of the proposed framework decision by the Council of the European Union in May 2008, at the 2908th meeting of the Council of the European Union held... Michael Plachta 26 3 2010-03-01 Denmark, European Union, Europe, Finland, Sweden Administration of Justice, Crimes, European Union, International Convention, International Cooperation, International Law, Treaties
Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY by Bruce Zagaris I. Books A. Counter-Terrorism and Aliens Terrorism and the Foreigner; a Decade of Tension around the Rule of Law (Elspeth Guild and Anneliese Baldaccini, eds.),... Bruce Zagaris 26 4 2010-03-01 World Bibliography
EU-U.S. Agreement on Processing and Transfer of Financing Messaging Date For Purposes of the U.S. Terrorist Financing Tracking Program (TFTP) In November 2009, the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU published information on the operations of the EU-U.S. agreement on the processing and transfer of financing message data for... Bruce Zagaris 26 3 2010-03-01 Europe, United States Administration of Justice, Crimes, European Union, Financial Supervision, International Cooperation, International Crimes, Terrorism
U.S. Indictment Charges Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy between Terrorist and Narcotics Groups On December 18, 2009, federal prosecutors charged three West Africans for conspiring to transport cocaine through Africa in conjunction with two known international terrorist organizations, The Farc... Bruce Zagaris and Cassandra Sheehan 26 3 2010-03-01 Afghanistan, Africa, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Spain, Togo, United States Administration of Justice, Conspiracy, Drug Enforcement, Drugs & Trafficking, International Crimes, National Security, Organized Crime, Terrorism
Brazilian Migrants Are Terrorized by Suriname’s Maroons After Killing Incident On Christmas Eve 2009, the killing of Surinamese Wilson Apensa by Brazilian gold miner Adilson Aliviera sparked a wild rampage involving approximately 300 maroons, or descendants of African slaves,... Bruce Zagaris 26 3 2010-03-01 Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Human Rights, Immigration, International Crimes, Murder, Rape, Terrorism, Theft, Torture
Saudi Bank Challenges USA PATRIOT Act Subpoena On January 19, 2010, a Saudi bank filed a Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of its Motion to Quash a USA PATRIOT Act Subpoena. The case raises interesting and important issues of... Bruce Zagaris 26 3 2010-03-01 Russia, Saudi Arabia, United States Bank Secrecy, Banking Supervision, Crimes, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision, International Banking Supervision, International Cooperation, International Crimes, Jurisdiction
U.S. Court Dismisses Indictment against Former Blackwater Officials On December 31, 2009, U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina dismissed manslaughter and weapons charges against five Blackwater guards because prosecutors had violated the men’s rights by... Bruce Zagaris 26 3 2010-03-01 Iraq, United States Administration of Justice, Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Human Rights, Immunity, International Crimes, Murder, War Crimes
Inspector General Criticizes U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Afghanistan On December 23, 2009, the U.S. Department of State Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report criticizing severely counternarcotics efforts of the U.S. government in Afghanistan and making... Bruce Zagaris 26 3 2010-03-01 Afghanistan, United States Administration of Justice, Crimes, Drug Enforcement, Drugs & Trafficking, International Crimes, Terrorism
ICC Prosecutor Will Open First Unilateral Investigation in Kenya On November 26, 2009, during a visit to Kenya, ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo promised to seek to bring to trial some of the persons responsible for meeting and organizing the violence... Bruce Zagaris 26 3 2010-03-01 Africa, Kenya Administration of Justice, Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, International Courts, International Crimes, International Criminal and Comparative Law, Jurisdiction, Murder, Peacekeeping, Robbery

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