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Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute Perpetrators of U.S. Embassy Bombings Ensue |
In the third month since the August 7, 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the efforts of the U.S. and other governments to investigate and prosecute the alleged perpetrators... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Afghanistan |
Terrorism, Law Enforcement |
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U.S. and Russian Narcotics Officials Agree to Cooperate |
On July 30, 1998, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Thomas A. Constantine and Russian Ministry of Interior (MVD) First Deputy Minister Colonel-General Vladimir Kolesnikov... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, Russia |
Drugs & Trafficking, International Cooperation |
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Council of Europe Opens Convention on Criminal Environmental Law |
On September 9, 1998, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the Convention on the Protection of Environment through Criminal Law, whose goal is to improve the protection of the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Europe |
Environment, International Organizations, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
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Illegal Migrant Honduran Children Engage in Drug Sales in Vancouver |
Vancouver police have arrested numerous Honduran children aged 10 to 15 found selling crack cocaine, as indications reveal a trend to employ illegal alien children to sell crack cocaine and other... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, Honduras |
Immigration, Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime |
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Review of International Criminal Law in the Netherlands (Bert Swart and André Klip, eds), Freiburg im Breisgau: Ed. Iuscrim, Max-Planck-Inst. für Ausländisches und Internat. Strafrecht, 1997, ISBN 3-86113-960-X). |
The book provides a comprehensive discussion of international criminal law in the Netherlands and results from cooperation between the departments of criminal law of the University of Utrecht (Willem... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Netherlands |
Book Review, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
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UK Overseas Territories Meet on OECD Report on Harmful Tax Competition and Focus on UK Draft Report on “Offshore UK” Islands |
In September 1998, ministers from the UK’s ten overseas territories met in London with officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the UK Treasury, and Inland Revenue to discuss issues,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United Kingdom, UK Overseas Territories |
Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes |
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Colombia Supreme Court Rules Law Reinstating Extradition Not Retroactive |
On October 1, 1998, the Supreme Court of Colombia ruled by a 5-4 vote that a law reinstating extradition cannot be applied retroactively. The law will be critical for a number of the Cali drug... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Colombia |
Extradition, Organized Crime |
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Argentine Judge Requests Extradition of IBM Employees Despite Lack of Criminal Charges |
A continuing battle between an Argentine federal judge and U.S. authorities is unfolding as the Argentine judge requested the extradition of two U.S.-based International Business Machines executives... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, Argentina |
Extradition, Bribery |
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Bibliography of Books |
1. Human Rights
Amnesty International, United States of America Rights for All (1998). (This report reveals a persistent and widespread pattern of human rights violations in the U.S.A.) |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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France Grants Bail to U.S. Fugitive Einhorn in New Extradition Case |
On September 29, 1998, a French court in Bordeaux, France ordered Ira Einhorn released on bail, pending a second U.S. extradition request with respect to Einhorn’s conviction in absentia in... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, France |
Extradition |
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Bibliography of Articles |
1. Adjective Enforcement and Evidence Gathering
R.J. Currie, Peace and Public Order: International Mutual Legal Assistance "the Canadian Way," 7 Dalhousie J. Legal Stud. 91-124 (1998). |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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U.S. Appellate Court Orders Production of Freedom of Information Act |
On October 6, 1998, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a district court decision and held that information underlying a requesting state’s extradition request must be produced... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States, United Kingdom |
Extradition |
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Bibliography of Book Reviews |
James Adams, Moonlighting, Book Review, Wash. Post, Sept. 27, 1998, at 28, col. 2 (reviewing Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion and Alexander Cockburn and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
World |
Bibliography, Book Review |
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European Judicial Network Agrees on New Cooperation in Its First Meeting |
On September 29, 1998, Nikolaus Michalek, Austrian Minister of Justice and President of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, opened in Brussels the constituent meeting of the European Judicial... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Europe |
Teaching, Research, Adjective Assistance |
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Suit by Canadian against RCMP Results in Removal from Interpol List |
On September 15, 1998, the media announced that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had reached a tentative agreement with Dan Kiselbach, Vancouver counsel for Ross McLellan, a Canadian... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Canada |
Teaching, Research, Adjective Assistance |
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U.S. Senate Approves 39 Criminal Cooperation Treaties |
On October 21, 1998, the U.S. Senate voted to approve for ratification 39 treaties providing for international criminal cooperation, including 19 mutual assistance in criminal matters treaties (MLATs... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States |
Treaties, Teaching, Research, Adjective Assistance |
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Swiss Seize $90 Million and Mexican Government Seeks 50-Year Prison Term for Raúl Salinas |
On October 20, 1998, the Swiss Government announced the seizure of more than $90 million from Raúl Salinas de Gortari, a brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas, as a result of an... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
Mexico, Switzerland |
Corruption, Asset Forfeiture |
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Initiative to Establish Enforcement Regime Against Transnational Corruption Progresses |
International organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and governments continue their efforts at constructing an alliance to establish an enforcement regime against transnational corruption... [... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
OECD |
Corruption, Law Enforcement |
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U.S. Congress Passes Bill to Combat Transnational Corruption |
On October 21, 1998, Congress passed legislation (S 2375) approving the OECD Convention on the Bribery of Foreign Public Officials. The law will amend the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United States |
Corruption, Bribery, Treaties |
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British Report on Channel Islands Offshore Will Require Publication of Companies’ Accounts |
In a prelude to one of many controversies over financial supervisory regulation and enforcement and fiscal integrity, a draft recommendation of a British Home Office report in financial regulation on... |
Bruce Zagaris |
14 |
11 |
1998-11-01 |
United Kingdom |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy |