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China Indicts Four Employees of Rio Tinto |
On February 10, 2010, Shanghai, China prosecutors issued indictments against an Australian citizen and three Chinese employees of the Melbourne-based British-American multinational mining company Rio... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
Australia, China, Japan, Korea |
Administration of Justice, Corruption, Crimes, Trade Crimes |
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EU Rejects Agreement with U.S. to Share SWIFT Bank Data |
On February 11, 2010, at a meeting in Strasbourg, France, the European Parliament voted 378 to 196 to reject an agreement between the United States and European Union that would have enabled U.S.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
European Union, Europe, France, United States |
Bank Secrecy, Crimes, European Union, Evidence Gathering, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision, International Cooperation, International Crimes, Privacy, Securities Law |
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Europol Joint Investigations Break Counterfeit Good Ring in Italy |
On December 21, 2010, the European Police Office (Europol) announced the break up of a large criminal network involved in large-scale illicit production and distribution of counterfeit goods...more... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
Austria, Belgium, European Union, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland |
Administration of Justice, Conspiracy, Counterfeiting, Crimes, European Union, Evidence Gathering, Immigration, Intelligence, International Cooperation, Organized Crime |
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BAE Pays $450 Million to Settle Bribery Charges in the U.S. and U.K. |
On February 4, 2010, BAE systems, Europe’s largest military contractor, agreed to plead to two criminal charges and pay almost $450 million in penalties in the United States and Britain to settle... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, United States, tanzania |
Administration of Justice, Bribery, Crimes, Fraud, International Crimes, International Criminal and Comparative Law |
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U.S. Charges Former Guatemalan President with Money Laundering |
On January 25, 2010, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and other law enforcement officials announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Alfonso Portillo,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
Guatemala, Taiwan, United States |
Administration of Justice, Conspiracy, Crimes, Embezzlement, Fraud, International Cooperation, International Crimes, International Law, Jurisdiction, Money Laundering |
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Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Holds Hearing on Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of the United States |
On February 4, 2010, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on Keeping Foreign Corruption Out of the United States: Four Case Histories. The Subcommittee hearing examined how... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
Angola, Nigeria, United States |
Comparative and International Law, Corruption, Crimes, Embezzlement, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision, Intellectual Property, International Cooperation, International Crimes, Money Laundering, Trade Crimes |
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Africa Union and Liberia Start Anti-Corruption Initiatives |
On January 27, 2010, Erastus Mwencha, the deputy chairman of the African Union Commission, announced that the African Union Commission will establish a special commission to combat corruption. Also... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
Africa, Liberia |
Administration of Justice, Corruption, Crimes, Financial Supervision, International Cooperation, Money Laundering |
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ICTY Prosecutor Reports on Serbia and Croatia Cooperation |
At the end of January 2010, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Serge Brammertz reported to the European Parliament on the cooperation of Serbia and Croatia with the Tribunal,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
Croatia, Serbia |
Administration of Justice, Genocide, International Cooperation, International Crimes |
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Swiss Government Suspends Implementation of UBS Tax Disclosure with US |
On January 28, 2010, the Swiss government announced it has suspended the disclosure of information to the United States under the agreement reached on August 19, 2009, as a result of a ruling in a... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
Switzerland, United States |
Bank Secrecy, Economic Crimes, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision, International Crimes, Privacy, Tax Crimes, Tax Enforcement |
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UK Supreme Court Orders Identification of Terror Subjects in Asset Freeze Case |
On January 27, 2010, the UK Supreme Court unanimously ordered the identification of five persons who had their assets frozen by the Treasury for suspicion of supporting terrorist activities. The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
4 |
2010-04-01 |
Europe, Pakistan, United Kingdom |
Evidence Gathering, Human Rights, Privacy, Terrorism |
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Court Denies Discovery in Mexican Extradition Request Case |
On January 8, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a memorandum opinion, denying a discovery request by the relator, Zhenly Ye Gon, who is fighting extradition to Mexico... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
3 |
2010-03-01 |
Mexico, United States |
Administration of Justice, Extradition, International Cooperation, International Crimes, Jurisdiction |
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U.S. Charges 22 in Undercover Sting Involving Foreign Bribery Scheme |
On January 19, 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted 22 executives and employees of companies in the military and law enforcement products industry in conspiracies to bribe foreign government... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
3 |
2010-03-01 |
Africa, Israel, Peru, United Kingdom, United States |
Administration of Justice, Arms Trafficking, Bribery, Conspiracy, Corruption, International Crimes, Law Enforcement |
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France Agrees to Return Stolen HSBC Client Data to Switzerland |
On December 21, 2009, a French prosecutor in Aix-en-Provence ordered the return of data stolen by a former employee of HSBC Private Ban (Suisse) SA as demanded by the Swiss government, thereby... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
3 |
2010-03-01 |
France, Switzerland |
Bank Secrecy, Banking Supervision, Computer Crimes, Crimes, Fraud, International Cooperation, Taxation |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES |
I. Books A. Counter-Terrorism and Aliens Terrorism and the Foreigner; a Decade of Tension around the Rule of Law (Elspeth Guild and Anneliese Baldaccini, eds.), Martinus Nijhoff 2007, 431 pp. B.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
2010-03-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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UBS Issues Code of Conduct on Tax and Financial Crime |
On January 12, 2010, UBS published a ten-page Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that prohibits its employees from assisting clients in committing tax and financial crimes. The UBS code provisions... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
3 |
2010-03-01 |
United States |
Economic Crimes, Financial Supervision, Tax Crimes, Tax Enforcement, Taxation |
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Recognition and Enforcement of the Supervision of Probation Measures and Alternative Sanctions within the European Union–An Update |
Following the publication of the modified version of the proposed framework decision by the Council of the European Union in May 2008, at the 2908th meeting of the Council of the European Union held... |
Michael Plachta |
26 |
3 |
2010-03-01 |
Denmark, European Union, Europe, Finland, Sweden |
Administration of Justice, Crimes, European Union, International Convention, International Cooperation, International Law, Treaties |
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Bibliography |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
by Bruce Zagaris
I. Books
A. Counter-Terrorism and Aliens
Terrorism and the Foreigner; a Decade of Tension around the Rule of Law (Elspeth Guild and Anneliese Baldaccini, eds.),... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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4 |
2010-03-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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UN Panel Characterizes Guinea Incidents Crimes Against Humanity and Calls for Referral to ICC |
On December 20, 2009, a United Nations panel issued a 60-page report, declaring the massacre and rapes of unarmed protesters at a stadium in Conakry, Guinea as crimes against humanity” and calling... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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3 |
2010-03-01 |
Guinea |
Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, International Courts, International Crimes, Murder, Rape, Torture, United Nations |
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U.S. Indictment Charges Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy between Terrorist and Narcotics Groups |
On December 18, 2009, federal prosecutors charged three West Africans for conspiring to transport cocaine through Africa in conjunction with two known international terrorist organizations, The Farc... |
Bruce Zagaris and Cassandra Sheehan |
26 |
3 |
2010-03-01 |
Afghanistan, Africa, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Spain, Togo, United States |
Administration of Justice, Conspiracy, Drug Enforcement, Drugs & Trafficking, International Crimes, National Security, Organized Crime, Terrorism |
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EU-U.S. Agreement on Processing and Transfer of Financing Messaging Date For Purposes of the U.S. Terrorist Financing Tracking Program (TFTP) |
In November 2009, the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU published information on the operations of the EU-U.S. agreement on the processing and transfer of financing message data for... |
Bruce Zagaris |
26 |
3 |
2010-03-01 |
Europe, United States |
Administration of Justice, Crimes, European Union, Financial Supervision, International Cooperation, International Crimes, Terrorism |