Articles

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Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
Former U.S. Government Employee Sues for Immunity in CIA Rendition Case On May 14, 2009, Sabrina De Sousa, a former U.S. government employee, accused by Italy of participating in a CIA-organized kidnapping of radical Muslim cleric, has sued the State Department,... Bruce Zagaris 25 7 2009-07-01 United States, Italy Administration of Justice, Immunity, Kidnaping, International Courts, International Cooperation
SEC Charges Pang with Fraud and Orders Repatriation of Assets and Surrendering Passports On April 27, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained an emergency order freezing the assets of Danny Pang and his two Irvine, California-based firms Private Equity Management Group, Inc... Bruce Zagaris 25 7 2009-07-01 United States, China, Taiwan Administration of Justice, Fraud, Asset Forfeiture, White Collar Crime
U.S. Congress Passes Fraud Enforcement Bill After Removing International Tax Crime Provisions On May 18, 2009, prior to a House vote Congress passed a fraud enforcement bill (S. 396) after removing provisions making movement into or out of the U.S. money for the purpose of committing tax... Bruce Zagaris 25 7 2009-07-01 World, United States Money Laundering, Taxation, Fraud, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes
Clinton List Snares Innocents in Its Impersonal Web An innocent Colombian man has found his name placed on the United States Office of Foreign Asset Control’s list of Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins, known as the Clinton List, due... Luz Nagle 25 7 2009-07-01 United States, Colombia Cybercrime, Drugs & Trafficking, Fraud, Drug Enforcement, Computer Crimes
PartyGaming and U.S. Reach Non-Prosecution Agreement On April 7, 2009, the U.S. government and PartyGaming PLC, an Internet gambling company incorporated in Gibraltar and publicly trade on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PRTY,... Bruce Zagaris 25 6 2009-06-01 United States, United Kingdom, Gibraltar Administration of Justice, International Gaming
Mexico Requests Automatic Exchange of Information about Interest Paid by U.S. Banks to Mexican Residents The Mexican Finance Secretary, Agustin Carstens, has written to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, requesting that the United States and Mexican Governments exchange information automatically... David Spencer 25 6 2009-06-01 United States, Mexico Bank Secrecy, Drugs & Trafficking, Mutual Legal Assistance, Organized Crime, International Cooperation, Drug Enforcement
G20 Meeting Agree on Mechanisms and Arrangements to Increase International Financial Regulation and Enforcement On April 2, 2009, the Communique of the G20 Meeting contains undertakings to strengthen international financial regulation and enforcement, including the strengthening of the Financial Stability... Bruce Zagaris 25 6 2009-06-01 World, G-10 member countries International Organizations, Securities Law, White Collar Crime, Securities Trade Enforcement, Tax Enforcement, International Cooperation
Unfunding Terror: The Legal Response to the Financing of Global Terrorism by Jimmy Gurulé (Edward Elgar Publishing, 425 pp. 2008). The author, a Professor at Notre Dame University Law School and former Under Secretary for Enforcement in the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 11, 2001, when the Bush Administration... Bruce Zagaris 25 6 2009-06-01 United States, Afghanistan Terrorism, United Nations, Book Review
SEC Stops Ponzi Scheme of Americans Using Swiss Affiliate and Caribbean Bank On March 28, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained an emergency court order, stopping a $68 million Ponzi scheme involving the sale of fictitious high-yield certificates of deposit (... Bruce Zagaris 25 6 2009-06-01 World, United States, Switzerland, st. vincent Securities Law, Fraud, White Collar Crime, Securities Trade Enforcement
U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Hearing Shows Trends in Efforts to Strengthen International Tax Enforcement On March 31, 2009, the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures of the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on “Issues Involving Banking Secrecy Practices and Wealthy American Taxpayers.”... Bruce Zagaris 25 6 2009-06-01 World, United States Taxation, Tax Enforcement, International Cooperation, Tax Crimes, International Convention
Singapore New Extradition Warrant for Leeson Will Likely Have Success as Britain Decides Not to Request Extradition At the end of April 1995, Singapore officials in Germany revealed that they timely delivered a new extradition warrant for former Barings trader Nick Leeson Singapore traders filed a new request... Bruce Zagaris 11 6 2009-06-01 United States, Germany, Singapore Extradition, Human Rights, Fraud, Forgery
Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act Reintroduced in U.S. Congress On March 2, 2009, the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act (STHAA) was introduced as S. 506 and H.R. 1265 on the following day in the 111th Session of the U.S. Congress. The bill is quite similar to its... Bruce Zagaris 25 6 2009-06-01 Canada, United States, Barbados, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Panama, Antigua & Barbuda, Cayman Islands, Aruba, Liechtenstein, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Cyprus Jurisdiction, Taxation, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes
Guyana Denies Extradition of Guyanese Drug Suspects to the U.S. On April 13, 2009, the Caribbean media reported that recently the Chief Justice of Guyana, Ian Cheng, recently denied the U.S. extradition request for two high profile drug suspects...[more] Bruce Zagaris 25 6 2009-06-01 United States, Guyana Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking, Drug Enforcement
U.S. Indicts Anti-Castro Cuban Posada for Lying About Terrorism Incident in Cuba On April 8, 2009, a federal indictment was returned in the U.S. District Court in El Paso, Texas, against Luis Posada Carriles for perjury and obstruction of a government proceeding related to his... Bruce Zagaris 25 6 2009-06-01 United States, Cuba Administration of Justice, Immigration, Terrorism
Colombia Extradites Paramilitary Leader to the U.S. for Drug Trafficking Charges On March 4, 2009, Colombia extradited Miguel Angel Mejia-Munera, also known as “El Mellizo” to the United States to face narcotics trafficking charges...[more] Bruce Zagaris and Philip Mayer 25 5 2009-05-01 United States, Colombia Customs Enforcement, Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking, International Cooperation, Customs, Smuggle
THE POSITION OF THE ICC PROSECUTOR IN THE RECENT HOSTILITIES IN THE GAZA STRIP As it usually happens with the initiation of large multilateral projects, the advent of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in July 2002 was greeted with a sense of joy. It was believed that the... Konstantinos D. Magliveras 25 5 2009-05-01 Israel, Palestine Administration of Justice, Terrorism, International Courts, Peacekeeping
Brazil Loses Restraining Order Against Opportunity Fund in Civil Asset Forfeiture Case On February 24, 2009, Judge D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order dissolving the restraining orders against funds held by Opportunity Fund and related... Bruce Zagaris 25 5 2009-05-01 United States, Brazil Administration of Justice, Jurisdiction, Asset Forfeiture, White Collar Crime
Financial Center Governments Pledge to Follow OECD Harmful Tax Practices During the second week of March 2009, a number of important governments with strong international financial services, pledged to abide by the OECD harmful tax practices standards concerning tax... Bruce Zagaris 25 5 2009-05-01 United States, Switzerland, Singapore, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Austria, Hong Kong, monaco Taxation, European Union, White Collar Crime, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes
Practitioners Discuss Defects of Criminalizing International Tax Fraud as a Separate Money Laundering Offense On March 18, 2009, a group of concerned practitioners, many of whom are members of the American Bar Association Sections of Taxation, International Law, and Criminal Justice, and alumni of the... Bruce Zagaris 25 5 2009-05-01 World, United States Money Laundering, Taxation, Tax Enforcement, Tax Crimes
EU Justice and Home Affairs Council Makes Progress on Migration, Jurisdiction and Many Other Subjects On February 26-27, 2009, the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council held its 2927th meeting and achieved progress on a number of criminal justice and enforcement matters...[more] Bruce Zagaris 25 5 2009-05-01 Europe, Japan Jurisdiction, Immigration, Terrorism, European Union, Drugs & Trafficking, Mutual Legal Assistance, Drug Enforcement

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