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On October 20, 2022, Anne Sacoolas, a United States citizen who fled Britain in 2019 after her car struck and killed a 19-year-old British motorcyclist in England, pled guilty to causing the death of the victim Harry Dunn by careless driving.[1]
On October 18, 2022, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has released and submitted its report to the UN General Assembly.[1]
* Professor Plachta specializes in criminal law and international criminal law. He has authored numerous publication on a wide range of problems concerning law enforcement and international cooperation in criminal matters. He currently teaches criminal law and European criminal law at the University of Security in Poznan, Poland.
[1] Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, October 18, 2022, UNGA A/77/533.
On October 24, 2022, the United States Department of Justice announced three separate cases brought in the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the Eastern District of New York and the District of new Jersey against 13 individuals, including members of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) security and intelligence apparatus and their agents, for alleged efforts to unlawfully exert influence in the U.S. for the benefit of the government of the PRC.[1]
[1] U.S. Department of Justice, Two Arrested and 13 Charged in Three Separate Cases for Alleged Participation in Malign Schemes in the United States on Behalf of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, Press Release 22-1141, Oct. 24, 2022.
Both the Council of Europe and the European Parliament[1] continue involvement in the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
* Professor Plachta specializes in criminal law and international criminal law. He has authored numerous publication on a wide range of problems concerning law enforcement and international cooperation in criminal matters. He currently teaches criminal law and European criminal law at the University of Security in Poznan, Poland.
[1] Michael Plachta, European Parliament Adopted a Resolution on the Fight Against Impunity for War Crimes in Ukraine, 38 Int’l Enforcement L. Reporter 250-253 (2022).
On September 9, Roxanne Chantereau, co-founder of the JACK Primate Rehabilitation Center in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo found that three chimpanzees had been gone missing. Later that day via WhatsApp, she would receive a video showing the three missing infant primates in a filthy hovel and a ransom demand of six figures. Congo’s National Intelligence Agency has begun an investigation into the matter and “consider the robbing of these babies as a security threat for the country.”
On October 6, 2022, the IRS announced that IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Mexico City has found 79 criminal fugitives in Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as part of a new initiative. [1]
On October 12, 2022, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the civil action brought by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) against Stephen A. Wynn, whereby the DOJ sought an injunction forcing him to register as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
On October 6, 2022, Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), a joint OECD/UNDP initiative, issued an annual report, showing it has expanded its services to furnish practical hands-on assistance on criminal tax investigation, the effective use of automatic exchange of information data, digitalization of tax administrations, and tax and the environment. The annual report states the initiative has brought a total of $1.7 billion in additional tax assessed across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
On October 7, 2022, President Joseph Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (E.O.) directing the steps that the U.S. will take to implement the U.S. commitments under the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) announced by President Biden and European Commission President von der Leyen in March of 2022. The goal of the order is to implement the framework to respond to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) Order in Schrems II (July 16, 2020), which found serious gaps in the way the U.S. protects personal data. By upgrading the U.S. privacy shield and providing a multilayer redress mechanism with independent and binding authority for EU individuals to seek redress if they believe they are unlawfully targeted by U.S. intelligence activities, the U.S. is trying to implement the framework and respond to the gaps pointed out by the CJEU.[1]
On October 5, 2022, the Council of the European Union added three jurisdictions to its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, also known as its tax haven black list. They include Anguilla, Bahamas and Turks, and Caicos. The three Caribbean countries were added because, according to the Council, they facilitate offshore structures and arrangements aimed at attracting profits without real economic substance by failing to take all necessary actions to ensure the effective implementation of substance requirements under criterion 2.2. American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, the US Virgin Islands, and Vanuatu are also part of the list.
