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Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
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 25 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 25 5 2009-05-01 World, United States, Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan, Guatemala Drugs & Trafficking, Drug Enforcement
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
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
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
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 25 5 2009-05-01 World, Sudan Human Rights, Genocide, International Courts, International Criminal and Comparative Law
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
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 25 5 2009-05-01 World, United States, Latin America and South America, Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan Immunity, International Courts, Treaties, International Cooperation
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
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

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