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Central America’s “Northern Triangle” Drug Challenge |
Central America has the dubious distinction of having the world’s highest homicide rates. Located between the Andean coca-producing fields and North America’s cocaine-consuming... |
Scott B. MacDonald |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
Canada, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, European Union, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, United States, Venezuela |
Drug Enforcement, Drugs & Trafficking |
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United Nations Trust Fund for the Fight Against Piracy Grants Financial Support of Anti-Piracy Efforts |
On May 1, 2013, the United Nations Trust Fund for the Fight against Piracy (the Trust Fund) approved a package of projects in support of anti-piracy efforts in Somalia and other affected States... |
Michael Plachta |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
Africa, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Korea, Norway, Qatar, Seychelles, Somalia, Turkey, United Kingdom |
Piracy, United Nations |
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Nicaragua Locates and Returns FBI Top Ten Suspect in Child Porn Case to the US |
Fugitive Eric Justin Toth, a former teacher at Washington D.C.’s National Cathedral Beauvoir Elementary School, is now in custody after being spotted by a tourist in Nicaragua. After replacing... |
Sara Hefny |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
Nicaragua, United States |
ACLU, Cross-Border Communication, Extradition |
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Sentences of U.S. Taxpayers for Offshore Tax Evasions Show Inconsistency |
On April 25, 2013, two sentencing decisions of U.S. taxpayers for evading taxes through hiding offshore income show the difficulty of predicting sentences. Meanwhile, a federal regulatory... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
India, Switzerland, United States |
Tax Crimes, Tax Enforcement |
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Spain Refuses to Extradite Former HSBC Official to Switzerland on Charges of Revealing Client Information |
On May 8, 2013, Spain’s national court denied the request of the Swiss government to extradite Herve Falciani, a former employee of HSBC private bank in Geneva to Switzerland, where he is... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
France, Spain, Switzerland |
Bank Secrecy, Extradition, Tax Enforcement |
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European Parliament’s Special Committee Reports on Various Aspects of Money Laundering |
In January 2013, European Parliament’s Special Committee on Organized Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering (CRIM) released two papers on various aspects of money laundering. |
Michael Plachta |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
European Union |
Corruption, Organized Crime |
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Law Enforcement Authorities Make Arrests and Seizures in 3 Countries in Diamond Theft at the Brussels Airport |
On May 7 and 8, 2013, three months after masked robbers stole more than $50 million in diamonds from a plane preparing to depart Brussels airport, law enforcement authorities in France, Switzerland,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
Belgium, France, Switzerland |
Organized Crime |
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U.S. Indicts Swiss Lawyer and Swiss Banker with Conspiracy to Hide Swiss Accounts |
On April 16, 2013, U.S. law enforcement officials announced the indictment of Edgar Paltzer, a partner at a Swiss law firm and a registered attorney in the State of New York, and Stefan Buck, the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
Switzerland, United States |
Tax Enforcement |
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U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Accept Certiorari in Case Involving Grand Jury Subpoena for FBAR Information in Offshore Tax Case |
On May 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari in a case involving the issuance of a grand jury subpoena requiring targets of the grand jury to produce information of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
United States |
Tax Enforcement |
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U.S. Supreme Court Limits Alien Tort Statute |
On April 17, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided to limit the ability of plaintiffs to bring suits under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), which has been one of the main statutes under which... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
Netherlands, Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States |
Crimes against Humanity, Human Rights |
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Council of Europe Adopts Resolution on Fighting “Child Sex Tourism” |
At its 13th sitting held on April 23, 2013, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted Resolution Fighting “child sex tourism”.[2] Both the debate and... |
Michael Plachta |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
European Union |
Council of the European Union, Human Rights |
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Two Bankers Associations Sue U.S. Treasury and IRS to Enjoin Regs to Require U.S. Banks To Report Interest Paid to Non-Resident Aliens from Certain Countries |
On April 18, 2013, the Florida Bankers Association and the Texas Bankers Association sued the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service, seeking a declaratory judgment... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
United States |
Tax Enforcement |
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Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal Convicts and Sentences Islamist Party Leader to Death |
On May 9, 2013, the Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal convicted Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-el-Islami party, of crimes committed during the country’s 1971 war of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
Bangladesh |
International Courts |
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U.S. Indicts Head of Guinea-Bissau Armed Forces for Conspiracy to Sell Missiles to Foreign Terrorist Organization and Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy |
On April 18, 2013, United States law enforcement officials announced the unsealing of charges against Antonio Indjai, the head of the Guinea-Bissau armed forces, for conspiring to provide help to the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
Colombia, Guinea, United States |
Drug Enforcement, Drugs & Trafficking, Extradition, Organized Crime |
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Bibliography of Books, Articles, and Documents |
The bibliography for the July 2013 issue includes relevant books, articles, and documents pertaining to several issues in international law. |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
7 |
2013-07-01 |
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Dominican Republic Extradites Its Former Drug Control Chief to the U.S. |
On April 8, 2013, U.S. law enforcement officials announced that the Dominican Republic extradited Francisco Antonio Hiraldo-Guerrero, a former Dominican military official and former... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
6 |
2013-06-01 |
Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, United States |
Drugs & Trafficking, Extradition |
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5 Major EU Countries Agree To Develop a Multilateral Tax Information Exchange Mechanism |
On April 9, 2013, the Finance Ministers of the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and Spain notified EU Tax Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta that they had agreed to work on a pilot multilateral... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
6 |
2013-06-01 |
Austria, European Union, France, G-8 member countries, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, United Kingdom |
Economic Integration, Tax Enforcement |
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OAS Adopts Model Laws on Sworn Declaration of Net Worth and Whistleblowing |
On March 21, 2013, the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted two model laws on anti-corruption. The first concerns the submission and verification of declarations of net worth... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
6 |
2013-06-01 |
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, United States |
Corruption, International Cooperation |
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Europol Joint Operation Dismantles Global Credit Card Fraud |
On March 28, 2013, a joint operation coordinated by the Romanian Cybercrime Unit in Romania in close cooperation with Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3), resulted in dismantling a... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
6 |
2013-06-01 |
Australia, European Union, Romania, United States |
Cybercrime, Economic Integration |
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Announces Rewards for Arrest of Joseph Kony and Other Fugitives of International Criminal Tribunals |
On April 3, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the expansion of the State Department’s War Crimes Rewards Programs, implementing legislation that then-Senator Kerry authored and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
29 |
6 |
2013-06-01 |
Rwanda, Uganda, United States |
International Criminal Court |
