The International Enforcement Law Reporter

The International Enforcement Law Reporter is a monthly print and online journal covering news and trends in international enforcement law.

Since September 1985, the International Enforcement Law Reporter has analyzed the premier developments in both the substantive and procedural aspects of international enforcement law. Read by practitioners, academics, and politicians, the IELR is a valuable guide to the difficult and dynamic field of international law.

Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Files Application to Return 2,300-Years-Old Marble Bull’s Head to Lebanon

Friday, October 6, 2017
Author: 
Zarine Kharazian
Volume: 
33
Issue: 
10
Abstract: 

On July 8, 1967, French archaeologist Maurice Dunand unearthed a 2,300-years-old, foot tall marble bull’s head from a site at the foot of the Temple of Eshmun in Sidon, Lebanon. Dunand, the director of the Mission Archéologique Française in Lebanon at the time, was leading a state-sponsored excavation of the Eshmun site.

U.S. Indicts HSI Special Agent and 2 Colombians for Bribery Scheme to Dismiss an Indictment

Friday, October 6, 2017
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
33
Issue: 
10
Abstract: 

On September 25, 2017, U.S. law enforcement officials announced that a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment charging a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent and two Colombian nationals with conspiracy, corruption, and obstruction of justice charges arising from their participation in a bribery scheme that resulted in the dismissal of an indictment filed against Jose Piedrahita Ceballos, one of the Colombian nationals, in exchange for cash and other things of value.

UK Court Orders EAW-based Surrender of a Polish National to Italy in an Alleged Kidnapping Case

Friday, October 6, 2017
Author: 
Michael Plachta
Volume: 
33
Issue: 
10
Abstract: 

On September 29, 2017, District Judge (MC) Goldspring in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London (UK) delivered a judgment ordering the surrender of Michal Konrad Herba to the Italian authorities under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW).

 

Telia and Uzbek Subsidiary Make Global Settlement of Uzbek Corrupt Payments

Friday, September 29, 2017
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
33
Issue: 
10
Abstract: 

On September 21, 2017, Telia Company AB, an international telecommunications company based in Stockholm and formerly an issuer of publicly traded securities in the United States, and its Uzbek subsidiary, Coscom LLC, entered into a global foreign bribery settlement.  The settlement provides that it pay a combined total penalty of more than $965 million to settle criminal charges arising out of a scheme to pay bribes in Uzbekistan.

 

U.S. Court Rules Taxpayer’s Noncompliance with FBAR Obligations Was Not Willful

Friday, September 29, 2017
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
33
Issue: 
10
Abstract: 

On September 20, 2017, Judge Michael Morris Baylson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that taxpayer Arthur Bedrosian was not willful in his failure to comply with his Foreign Bank Account Report obligations.

Panama Superintendency of Banks Fines 3 Banks in Second Round of Enforcement Actions

Friday, September 29, 2017
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
33
Issue: 
10
Abstract: 

On September 13, 2017, the Superintendency of Banks of Panama announced that it has taken enforcement efforts and imposed fines on three Panamanian banks, including the state-owned national Bank, Multibank, and Banvivienda “for failure to comply with the standards for the prevention of money laundering capital and for violations of the banking regime.”

 

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