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On February 14, 2013, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced today that it has signed a bilateral agreement with Switzerland to facilitate the implementation of the information reporting and withholding tax provisions commonly known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
On January 22, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed the appeal by defendant/appellant Arab Bank PLC and denied the defendant’s petition for a writ of mandamus. The court found that the sanctions order was not a reviewable collateral order. As such, the court lacked jurisdiction.
Below are excerpts from the official transcripts of the October 16, 2012 meeting of the House of Commons in United Kingdom, during which British Secretary of State, Theresa May, made the decision to block the extradition of alleged computer hacker, Gary McKinnon, to the United States on the basis of violations of human rights. Also included is the opposing viewpoint, presented by Labour Party Parliament Member, Yvette Cooper :
On October 13, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals in a unanimous (3-0) decision overturned the conviction of Salim Ahmed Hamdam, a former driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden whose case has been in the Military Commission Tribunal in Guantanamo and heavily litigated in the U.S. Article III courts. In Salim Ahmed Hamdan v. U.S., the appellate court held that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 does not authorize retroactive prosecution of crimes that were not prohibited as war crimes triable by military commission under U.S.
On October 5, 2012, after a legal battle covering 8 to 14 years years in each case, five suspected terrorists, including radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, will be extradited to the US, UK judges have ruled.
The other men being sent to the US are Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled al-Fawwaz, in cases that are not linked to Abu Hamza's case.
In their ruling, the judges said there was no further avenue of appeal open to the five men. The Home Office said it was working to "extradite these men as quickly as possible."
Prior to the meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna published a report, "Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean."
Ahigh-level presentation to ministers and ambassadors from the Central American region discussed the report on September 28, 2012 in New York on the margins of the 67th session of the General Assembly.
Griffith University's Centre for Governance and Public Policy has just released a report titled 'Global Shell Games: Testing Money Launderers’ and Terrorist Financiers’ Access to Shell Companies', authored by Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson, and Jason Sharman.
In a report to Congress on Friday, September 7th, 2012, Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton formally designated the militant Haqqani network, an organization responsible for several attacks against American military in Afghanistan, as a terrorist organization, two days before a Congressional deadline.
On August 22, 2012, INTERPOL released its annual report for the 2011 year. With the addition of three new countries, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and South Sudan, INTERPOL's membership has risen to 190 different countries. The annual report highlights some of the major achievements of the year, including the construction of the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in Singapore, and a new Command and Coordination Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
