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Financial Stability Forum Publishes Ranking of Offshore Financial Centers (IIIA) |
On April 5, 2000, the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) published a list ranking 25 leading offshore financial centers (OFCs) according to their levels of compliance with international standards of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
World |
Securities Law |
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Yugoslav War Crimes Prosecutor Rejects Petitions to Investigate NATO’s Conduct (XID) |
On June 2, 2000, Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), announced that no basis exists for a formal investigation into whether... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
Balkans |
War Crimes |
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FSF Report Shows Lack of Hard Law Standards and Enforcement of International Supervisory Standards (IIIB) |
The publication on April 5, 2000 of the Financial Stability Forum’s Report of the Working Group on Offshore Centers and the subsequent decision to publish the results reflects a trend to try to... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
World |
Securities Law |
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Europol Begins Cooperation with Non-EU States and Bodies to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (XIIA) |
Abstract: Europol is taking multiple steps to initiate cooperation with non-EU states and bodies to combat transnational organized crime. On April 26-27, 2000, Europol organized a first seminar at... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
World, Europe |
European Union, Organized Crime |
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Ne Bis In Idem In A European Context (IVA) |
The ne bis in idem principle is well established in the law of most European countries. Domestic law provides that a person shall not be prosecuted nor punished for an act, for which he has already... |
Dr. jur. Ilias G. Anagnostopoulos |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
Europe |
Administration of Justice, Extradition |
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U.S. Suspends Aid to Dominican Republic Over Extradition and Human Rights Issues (IVB) |
As the Dominican Republic Government changes, international criminal cooperation with the United States has taken a turn for the worse. In April 2000, the U.S. Congress froze foreign aid over an... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
United States, Dominican Republic |
Extradition, Human Rights |
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War Crimes of the Former Yugoslav (XIC) |
On April 14, 2000, the Croatian Parliament passed a declaration, promising that Croatia will cooperate fully with the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Balkans |
United Nations, War Crimes |
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European Parliament Approves Decision on Anti-Money Laundering |
On April 12, 2000, the European Parliament approved legislation in the form of a decision to strengthen the 1991 EU directive on anti-money laundering.
The European Parliament adopted a dozen... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Europe |
Money Laundering |
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Christies Auctions Relics Over PRC Government’s Objections (XIIA) |
On April 30, 2000, Christie’s auctioned two relics despite protests from the People’s Republic of China that the relics had been looted from an imperial palace 140 years ago. The controversy gives... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
China |
Art and Cultural Property |
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U.S. and El Salvador Conclude Agreement for Airbase for Anti-Narcotics Flights (IIA) |
On March 31, 2000, Steve Lucas, spokesman for the U.S. military’s Miami-based Southern Command, announced the U.S. Department of State and the Salvadoran Government concluded an agreement, allowing... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
United States, El Salvador |
Drugs & Trafficking |
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Britain Orders Extradition of 2 Egyptians to the U.S. on Bombing of U.S. Embassies (XIIIA) |
On May 2, 2000, a British court ordered the extradition of Ibrahim Hussein Abdelhadi Eidarous and Adel Mohammed Abdul Almagid Barry to the U.S. where they are wanted in murder conspiracy charges in... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
United States, United Kingdom, Egypt |
Extradition, Terrorism |
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OECD Delays Sanctions for One Year, But Plans to Issue Report On Schedule |
On April 24, 2000, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) announced in applying its harmful tax competition initiative that it would defer for one year sanctions it... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Economic Sanctions, Taxation |
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Trinidad Police Conduct Software Piracy Raid after Help from NGO (XIVA) |
On April 16, 2000, the Trinidad and Tobago police reported conducting two raids against suspected computer pirates early during the week as a result of a tip off from the recently established local... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Trinidad & Tobago |
Intellectual Property |
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OECD Report on Improving Access to Bank Information For Tax Purposes (IIIB) |
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently issued a report entitled Improving Access to Bank Information for Tax Purposes. The report is 116 pages in length; and the... |
Charles M. Bruce |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Taxation |
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Books (XVA) |
The Prosecutor of a Permanent International Criminal Court ( Louise Arbour/Albin Eser/Kai Ambos/Andrew Sanders,eds.), International Workshop in co-operation with the Office of the Prosecutor the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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Israel Holds That 19-Year Old Israeli Can Be Extradited to Canada for Murder (IVA) |
On April 10, 2000, an Israeli court ruled that Daniel Weiz, a 19-year-old Israeli soldier, can be extradited to Canada on murder charges.
Mr. Weiz is charged, along with two Canadian teenagers, for... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Canada, Israel |
Extradition, Murder |
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Articles (XVB) |
1. Theft of Cultural Property
M. Lippman, Art and Ideology in the Third Reich: The Protection of Cultural Property and the Humanitarian Law of War, 17 Dick. J. Int’l L. 1-97 (1998).
M.I. Turner,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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Swiss and Luxembourg Freeze More Nigerian (Abacha) Assets (VA) |
On May 8, 2000, the media reported Swiss investigators have found and frozen $630 million in Luxembourg bank accounts connected with the sons of Sani Abacha, former Nigerian head of state.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Switzerland, Luxembourg |
Asset Forfeiture |
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Documents (XVC) |
1. Environment
General Accounting Office, U.S.-Mexico Border: Despite Some Progress, Environmental Infrastructure Challenges Remain, GAO/NSIAD-00-26, Mar. 3, 2000, 63 pp.
2. Human Rights
U.K. Bow... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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U.S. Urges Governments to Support Immunity Proposal (VIA) |
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has sent a letter to Foreign
Ministers in about 60 countries, urging support for the U.S. proposal for the proposed
International Criminal Court (ICC). The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World, United States |
International Courts |