On March 29, 2022, Carlos Roman Polit Faggioni (Polit) made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court in Miami, on charges he allegedly engaged in a scheme to use the U.S. financial system to launder money to promote and conceal an alleged illegal bribery scheme in Ecuador.[1]

On March 16, 2022, at an  extraordinary meeting, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Resolution CM/Res (2022)2  deciding, in the context of the procedure launched under Article 8 of the Statute of the Council of Europe, that the Russian Federation ceases to be a member of the Council of Europe as of that day.[1]

On March 22, 2022, the OECD issued a public consultation document involving a new world tax transparency framework to furnish the reporting and exchange of information with regard to crypto-assets and proposed amendments to the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) for the automatic exchange of financial account information between countries.  The consultation has the goal to inform the decisions of policy makers on the potential adoption of any such framework and its related components.

On March 21, 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., declared that Myanmar’s military has committed genocide against the Rohingya minority.   At present the Holocaust Museum features an exhibition on the atrocities against Burma’s Rohingya population.

On March 22, 2022, Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court under suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Bangui and other locations in 2013 and 2014.[1]

On March 2, 2022, Swedish multinational enterprise Ericsson disclosed that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused it of violating the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) in 2019 by failing to fully disclose evidence of alleged corruption and possible payments to terrorists in Iraq.[1]

On March 3 and 9, 2022, the United States obtained the extradition of two alleged participants in ransomware attacks.  On March 3, Poland extradited Yaroslav Vasinskyi and on March 9 Canada extradited Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins.

On February 23, 2022, the new head of the National Security Division (NSD), Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced the termination of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) China Initiative.  The announcement followed a months-long review after criticism from civil rights groups, academics and scientists about the adverse effects caused by the initiative.[1]

On March 14, 2022, the British Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Julian Assange to stop his extradition to the United States, stating his petition “does not raise an arguable point of law.”[1]

On March 11, 2022, the Smithsonian Institute announced that most, but not all, of their 39 Benin Bronzes are marked for return to Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCCM).  The Institution’s spokesperson, Linda St. Thomas, said that officials will determine whether to return the remaining artifacts once they are verified as being stolen.