Articles

E.g., 2026-08
Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
ILA Adopts Resolution on Extradition and Human Rights At the Buenos Aires Conference on August 14-20, 1994, the International Committee of the International Law Association adopted a resolution on extradition and human rights. In addition to adopting... Bruce Zagaris 10 11 1994-11-01 United States, Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, United Kingdom Extradition, Human Rights, Treaties, International Cooperation, International Convention
Multicountry Cooperation Against Prime Bank Fraud Recently an international investigation has resulted in the arrest and prospective extradition of persons involved in a major prime bank fraud scheme involving 6 million on the Salvation Army in the... Bruce Zagaris 10 11 1994-11-01 United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Netherlands Money Laundering, Due Diligence, Extradition, Fraud, Financial Crimes
U.S. Congress Passes Law for Antitrust Enforcement Cooperation At the end of the 103rd Congress, the U.S. Congress passed H.R. 4781, entitled the "International Antitrust Enforcement Assistance Act of 1994"...(more) Bruce Zagaris 10 11 1994-11-01 United States Jurisdiction, Mutual Legal Assistance, Antitrust Cooperation , Securities Trade Enforcement
New Panama Government Issues Decree Requiring Lawyers to Know Their Clients On September 19, 1994, the new Panamanian Administration of Ernesto Perez Balladares has issued a decree, requiring all lawyers and law firms who act as Resident Agent of a Panamanian corporation to... Bruce Zagaris 10 11 1994-11-01 Panama Money Laundering, Drugs & Trafficking, Mutual Legal Assistance
Monaco Signs Anti-Laundering Accord with France The Government of Monaco has concluded an agreement with the French Government to cooperate in combatting money laundering. Under the agreement Monaco will require its banks, insurance companies and... Bruce Zagaris 10 11 1994-11-01 United States, France, Belgium, Italy, Australia, monaco Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, European Union, Tax Crimes, Banking Supervision
Austrian Extradition Case: Stranger than Fiction Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction. But in the case of Austrian John Henry Abbott Unterweger, an international serial murderer, his fiction was all too real. On June 30, 1994, the man... Jennifer M. Wesley 10 11 1994-11-01 United States, Switzerland, Austria Extradition, Murder, Mutual Legal Assistance, Treaties
Jurisdiction over Colombian Ships on High Seas Litigated in Two Drug Cases Two cases in the United States District Court in Southern Florida have brought into question the efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard to seize foreign-flag vessels on the high seas. Already one case has... Bruce Zagaris 10 11 1994-11-01 United States, Colombia, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico Jurisdiction, Maritime, United Nations, Drugs & Trafficking, International Convention
Jamaica Court Reintroduction of Flogging Sets Stage for New Human Rights Confrontation On August 9, 1994, the Jamaican Supreme Court ordered the reintroduction of whipping when it sentenced a man convicted of wounding with intent, setting the stage for additional litigation of the... Bruce Zagaris 10 11 1994-11-01 Jamaica Human Rights, Murder, Capital Punishment
XVth Congress of International Penal Law Association Adopts Resolutions During September 5-10, 1994, the XVth Congress of the International Penal Law Association debated and passed resolutions on four principal and one newly added resolutions. More than 1,012... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 World, Tunisia Environment, Human Rights, International Organizations, United Nations, Mutual Legal Assistance, International Courts, Computer Crimes
26 Countries Sign Declaration Promising Enhanced Criminal Cooperation against New Transnational Crimes On September 8, 1994 twenty-six countries at a meeting in Berlin of the Interior and Justice ministers signed a declaration, promising to assess the potential threat of nuclear smuggling, cooperate... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 Europe, Germany Immigration, Drugs & Trafficking, Mutual Legal Assistance, Smuggle, Weapons of Mass Destruction
Highway Robberies of Truck Shipments into Mexico Grow and Cause Adjustments by Truck Companies An outbreak of highway theft is effecting truck shipments of toys and other consumer durables from the U.S., causing an assessment of this growing lawlessness and new prevention efforts...(more) Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 United States, Mexico Intelligence, Robbery, Theft, Vehicles
Regional Meeting on Phantom Ships and Piracy On July 19-20, 1994, the Second Regional Meeting on Piracy was held in Kuala Lumpur and focused on a spate of attacks in the general area identified variously as the Singapore Strait or Malacca... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 Singapore, Panama, Philippines, Honduras, Malaysia International Organizations, Jurisdiction, Maritime, Robbery, Piracy
U.S. Government Advocates International Tribunal to Try Alleged Genocide by Khmer Rouge in Cambodia On August 23, 1994, a Bangkok newspaper discussed efforts by the United States Government to establish an internal tribunal to try the Khmer Rouge for the massacre of more than 1 million people... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 United States, France, United Kingdom, Cambodia, Vietnam Human Rights, United Nations, Genocide, International Courts
Swedish Government Accuses Russia of Harboring and Employing as a Spy a Swedish National On August 3, 1994, the Government of Sweden accused Russia of harboring a convicted Swedish double-agent and using him to spy in Russia, Hungary and Lebanon as recently as this year...(more) Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 Russia, Hungary, Lebanon, Sweden Intelligence, National Security, International Criminal and Comparative Law, Economic Espionage
Cuba and the U.S. Reach Accord on Migration Enforcement On September 9, 1994, after seven days of talks in New York City, the Cuban and the U.S. Governments reached a narrow agreement on migration enforcement. Under the agreement the U.S. will take at... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 United States, Cuba, Panama Economic Sanctions, Human Rights, Immigration, Teaching, Research, Adjective Assistance
Money Laundering Suppression Act Will Make Foreign Checks, Drafts, Notes, Money Orders and Other Instruments Subject to Reporting Unless Foreign Jurisdictions Have Proper Anti-Laundering Laws A new money laundering law, referred to as the "Money Laundering Suppression Act of 1994," has almost been enacted as part of the Community Development Banking Act by the U.S. Congress. It has... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 Canada, United States, Mexico Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Smuggle, Banking Supervision
U.N. Crime Investigations Hampered by Lack of Resources A severe shortage of resources has restricted the efforts of the United Nations to monitor human rights abuses in Rwanda and collect evidence on humanitarian and related law of war violations. The... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia, tanzania, Zaire Human Rights, Law of War, United Nations, War Crimes, International Courts
Canadian Police Penetrate Organize Crime Drug Ring On August 30, 1994, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police realized some of the initial fruits of its infiltration of two large drug-related money laundering networks involving millions of dollars of... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 Canada, Jamaica, Colombia, Italy, Philippines Money Laundering, Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement
Hungarian Officials Arrest Two Persons on Involvement with Trafficking in Nuclear Materials On August 30, 1994, the Hungarian police reported that they arrested two Hungarian nationals for trying to sell 2kg of radioactive material, believed to be uranium fuel rods from the former Soviet... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 Germany, Russia, Hungary, Former Soviet Union Intelligence, European Union, Arms Trafficking, Smuggle, Weapons of Mass Destruction
Brazilian Police Bust Organized Crime Cocaine Ring On September 9, 1994, Brazilian police arrested Alex Suyanoff, 37 years old and a naturalized American, and announced other arrests and information, revealing successes in penetrating an organized... Bruce Zagaris 10 10 1994-10-01 United States, Brazil, Nigeria, Ghana, Denmark Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement

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