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Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act Reintroduced in U.S. Congress |
On March 2, 2009, the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act (STHAA) was introduced as S. 506 and H.R. 1265 on the following day in the 111th Session of the U.S. Congress. The bill is quite similar to its... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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6 |
2009-06-01 |
Canada, United States, Barbados, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Panama, Antigua & Barbuda, Cayman Islands, Aruba, Liechtenstein, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Cyprus |
Jurisdiction, Taxation, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes |
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Guyana Denies Extradition of Guyanese Drug Suspects to the U.S. |
On April 13, 2009, the Caribbean media reported that recently the Chief Justice of Guyana, Ian Cheng, recently denied the U.S. extradition request for two high profile drug suspects...[more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
6 |
2009-06-01 |
United States, Guyana |
Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking, Drug Enforcement |
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U.S. Indicts Anti-Castro Cuban Posada for Lying About Terrorism Incident in Cuba |
On April 8, 2009, a federal indictment was returned in the U.S. District Court in El Paso, Texas, against Luis Posada Carriles for perjury and obstruction of a government proceeding related to his... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
6 |
2009-06-01 |
United States, Cuba |
Administration of Justice, Immigration, Terrorism |
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PartyGaming and U.S. Reach Non-Prosecution Agreement |
On April 7, 2009, the U.S. government and PartyGaming PLC, an Internet gambling company incorporated in Gibraltar and publicly trade on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PRTY,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
6 |
2009-06-01 |
United States, United Kingdom, Gibraltar |
Administration of Justice, International Gaming |
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Mexico Requests Automatic Exchange of Information about Interest Paid by U.S. Banks to Mexican Residents |
The Mexican Finance Secretary, Agustin Carstens, has written to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, requesting that the United States and Mexican Governments exchange information automatically... |
David Spencer |
25 |
6 |
2009-06-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Bank Secrecy, Drugs & Trafficking, Mutual Legal Assistance, Organized Crime, International Cooperation, Drug Enforcement |
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G20 Meeting Agree on Mechanisms and Arrangements to Increase International Financial Regulation and Enforcement |
On April 2, 2009, the Communique of the G20 Meeting contains undertakings to strengthen international financial regulation and enforcement, including the strengthening of the Financial Stability... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
6 |
2009-06-01 |
World, G-10 member countries |
International Organizations, Securities Law, White Collar Crime, Securities Trade Enforcement, Tax Enforcement, International Cooperation |
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Unfunding Terror: The Legal Response to the Financing of Global Terrorism by Jimmy Gurulé (Edward Elgar Publishing, 425 pp. 2008). |
The author, a Professor at Notre Dame University Law School and former Under Secretary for Enforcement in the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 11, 2001, when the Bush Administration... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
6 |
2009-06-01 |
United States, Afghanistan |
Terrorism, United Nations, Book Review |
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SEC Stops Ponzi Scheme of Americans Using Swiss Affiliate and Caribbean Bank |
On March 28, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained an emergency court order, stopping a $68 million Ponzi scheme involving the sale of fictitious high-yield certificates of deposit (... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
6 |
2009-06-01 |
World, United States, Switzerland, st. vincent |
Securities Law, Fraud, White Collar Crime, Securities Trade Enforcement |
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U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Hearing Shows Trends in Efforts to Strengthen International Tax Enforcement |
On March 31, 2009, the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures of the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on “Issues Involving Banking Secrecy Practices and Wealthy American Taxpayers.”... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
6 |
2009-06-01 |
World, United States |
Taxation, Tax Enforcement, International Cooperation, Tax Crimes, International Convention |
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U.N. Secretary General Visits ICTR on Ending Mandate While Rwanda Government Urges Countries to Surrender or Try Suspects |
At the end of February 2009, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, made his first visit to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, to discuss, among other things... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
5 |
2009-05-01 |
World, Africa, Rwanda |
Human Rights, United Nations, Genocide, International Courts |
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Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Holds Second Hearing on Tax Haven Banks and the UBS Case |
On March 4, 2009, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, held a hearing on Tax Haven Banks and U. S. Tax Compliance - Obtaining... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
5 |
2009-05-01 |
World, United States, Switzerland |
Bank Secrecy, Taxation, White Collar Crime, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes |
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U.S. Issues International Narcotics Control Strategy Report |
On February 27, 2009, the Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, David T. Johnson, gave a media briefing on the release of the 2009 International... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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5 |
2009-05-01 |
World, United States, Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan, Guatemala |
Drugs & Trafficking, Drug Enforcement |
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U.S. Cracks Down on Sinaloa Cartel As Border Violence Accelerates |
On February 25, 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced the arrest of 755 individuals on narcotics -related charges and the seizure of more than 23 tons of narcotics as part of a 21-... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
5 |
2009-05-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Customs Enforcement, Drugs & Trafficking, Drug Enforcement, Smuggle |
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The Position of the ICC Prosecutor in the Recent Hostilities in the Gaza Strip |
As it usually happens with the initiation of large multilateral projects, the advent of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in July 2002 was greeted with a sense of joy. It was believed that the... |
Konstantinos D. Magliveras |
25 |
5 |
2009-05-01 |
Middle East, Israel, Sudan |
Human Rights, War Crimes, Genocide, International Courts, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
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U.K. Arrests British Solicitor over Nigerian Gas Bribes and U.S. FCPA Charges |
On March 5, 2009, British police arrested a British solicitor, Jeffrey Tesler, 60, in North London after United States authorities requested his extradition and that of Wojciech Chodan, also a Briton... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
5 |
2009-05-01 |
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Gibraltar |
Corruption, Extradition, Fraud, Bribery |
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ICC Issues Historic Arrest Warrant for Sudanese President over Darfur |
On March 4, 2009, The judges of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber I (PTC I) issued a highly anticipated arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir for his alleged... |
Golzar Kheiltash |
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5 |
2009-05-01 |
World, Sudan |
Human Rights, Genocide, International Courts, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
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EU Prepares Petition in the WTO Against U.S. on Internet Gaming Discriminatory Prosecution |
In 2009, the European Union is likely to exert increasing pressure this year to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), a 2006 law prohibiting online gambling...[more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
5 |
2009-05-01 |
United States, Europe |
International Gaming, European Union, International Cooperation, Betting |
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U.S. Congress Abandons Bush Era Sanctions on ICC Member States |
The U.S. Senate recently passed the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, without mention of sanctions to be levied against countries that have ratified the International Criminal Court, quietly ending an era... |
Philip Mayer |
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5 |
2009-05-01 |
World, United States, Latin America and South America, Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan |
Immunity, International Courts, Treaties, International Cooperation |
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European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS) |
After having reached a political agreement on the Framework Decision on the organization and content of the exchange of information extracted from criminal records between Member States at the... |
Michael Plachta |
25 |
5 |
2009-05-01 |
Europe, Bulgaria, Romania |
Administration of Justice, International Courts, International Cooperation |
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U.S. Court Grants Asset Forfeiture To Return Colonial Paintings to Peru |
On February 12, 2009, Judge James Cacheris of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted summary judgement to the U.S. government on an asset forfeiture action brought by... |
Bruce Zagaris |
25 |
5 |
2009-05-01 |
United States, Bolivia, Peru |
Art and Cultural Property, International Courts, Smuggle |