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Thornburgh Announces Initiative to Establish an Office of International Affairs On August 9, 1989, in a speech to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates, Attorney Richard Thornburgh announced that he will seek to establish a new Office of International Affairs at the... Bruce Zagaris 5 8 1989-08-01 United States Adjective Enforcement
ABA Annual Convention Hosts Program on Criminal Law issues in Doing Business Abroad On August 9, 1989, the Sections of International Law and Practice and the Section of Criminal Justice co-sponsored a program entitled "Criminal Law Issues in Doing Business Abroad" during the... Bruce Zagaris 5 8 1989-08-01 United States International Criminal and Comparative Law
Thornburgh Promises Better Enforcement of International Crimes Against the Environment On July 19, 1989, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in a speech before the National Association of District Attorneys in Portland, Maine, announced new initiatives against international crimes agaisnt... Bruce Zagaris 5 8 1989-08-01 United States Environment
Central American Presidents Agree on Implementation on Accord and on Machinery to Prevent Further International Crimes On August 8, at Tela, Honduras, five Central American Presidents from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, signed an accord to implement the previous agreements on stopping the... Bruce Zagaris 5 8 1989-08-01 Central America International Organizations
EC Ministers Agree on Computer Software Protection Proposal to Foil Piracy On December 21, 1988, the EC Commission, the executive arm of the European Communities, drafted a proposal for the protection of computer software which adheres to the principles of the Berne... Clemens J.M. Kochinke 5 8 1989-08-01 Europe Computer Crimes
U.S. Shares Forfeited Proceeds in Panamanian Bank Plea On August 14, after the Panama-based Banco de Occidente agreed to pay a $5 million criminal fine as a result of its pleading guilty to money laundering charges, the U.S. Government announced that it... Bruce Zagaris 5 8 1989-08-01 United States Bank Secrecy
Legislative B/C Weapons Control Efforts in the United States Among a dozen proposals on improved export control enforcement pending on Capitol Hill, several bills in the House and the Senate would restrict the manufacture of chemical and biological weapons. Markus Bornheim 5 8 1989-08-01 United States Weapons of Mass Destruction
Costa Rican Parliament's Narcotics Commission Recommends Revision of Laws and Further Investigations At the end of July, a parliamentary commission in Costa Rica concluded its investigation into the nation's problems resulting from international narcotics trafficking.  It presented a report that... Clemens J.M. Kochinke 5 8 1989-08-01 Costa Rica Drugs & Trafficking
Book Review: Guide to Computer Law; Commerce Clearing House, Inc. Unlike much computer law literature, the CCH Guide to Computer Law devoted substantial space to international and criminal matters.  Both fields are covered so well that the Guide is also a valuable... Clemens J.M. Kochinke 5 8 1989-08-01 United States Computer Crimes
Justice Department Will Centralize Prosecution of Money Laundering The Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice is planning to establish a Financial Crimes Unit aimed specifically at money laundering and the illicit profits of drug traffickers. Bruce Zagaris 5 8 1989-08-01 United States Money Laundering
Government Obtains Bribe Money From Swiss Bank Accounts On July 24, 1989, the Department of Justice announced the recovery of more than $3.6 million from Swiss bank accounts of George C. Davis, a former Vice President of Frigitemp Corp., arising from... Bruce Zagaris 5 8 1989-08-01 United States Bribery
Court of Appeals Upholds Exemption of Letters Rogatory from Financial Privacy Act On August 8, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the decision exempting from the Right to Financial Privacy Act (RFPA) letters rogatory, but modified the dismissal of... Bruce Zagaris 5 8 1989-08-01 United States Privacy
Senate Begins Consideration of U.N. Drug Convention On August 2, 1989, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held a short initial hearing on the proposed ratification of the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and... Tracy A. Palmer and Constantine G. Papavizas 5 8 1989-08-01 United States Drug Enforcement
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Reports out MLATs On July 25, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported out the pending Mutual Legal Assistance Agreements.   Bruce Zagaris 5 7 1989-07-01 United States Mutual Legal Assistance
U.N. Crime Prevention Committee Proposes Model Extradition and Mutual Assistance Conventions The United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control has proposed draft bilateral model treaties on extradition and mutual legal assistance.   Bruce Zagaris 5 7 1989-07-01 World Mutual Legal Assistance
Khashoggi Agrees to Return to the US Amid Ending Swiss Extradition Procedures On July 19, Adnan Khashoggi ended his appeal proceedings and agreed to return to the United States, in response to a U.S. extradition request after spending three months in Prison in Bern,... Bruce Zagaris 5 7 1989-07-01 Switzerland Extradition
Swiss Reaction to Money Laundering Offenses Demonstrates Maturity In a background of a money laundering bill and major administration and industry efforts to prevent misconduct in, and abuse of, the financial services industry, Swiss banks are now embarrassed by a... Clemens J.M. Kochinke 5 7 1989-07-01 Switzerland Money Laundering
INTERPOL Begins Implementation of International Cooperation Initiatives INTERPOL is continuing to act on several fronts in the area of stimulating international cooperation against business crime, especially in the areas of money laundering, access to banking records,... Ange-Francois Fantauzzi and Bruce Zagaris 5 7 1989-07-01 World INTERPOL
Italian Banks' Anti-Moneylaundering Effort On July 1, 1989, the Italian banking association's anti-money laundering code became operational.  Customers of the member banks are required to identify themselves for every cash or capital... Clemens J.M. Kochinke 5 7 1989-07-01 Italy Money Laundering
EC Finance Ministers Discuss New Anti-Fraud Proposals Recently at their June 19, 1989, meeting in Luxembourg, the European Community Finance ministers welcomed new anti-fraud measures prepared by the European Commission. Joan Morris 5 7 1989-07-01 Europe Fraud

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