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Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
New U.S. Laws Pertaining to U.S. Nationals Committing Sex Crimes Against Minors in Foreign Lands On April 10, 2003, Congress passed the Prosecutorial Remedies and Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today (Protect) Act. One important section of the act addressed the problem of so-called... Lindsay Nordell 20 8 2004-08-01 United States Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Sex Crimes
European Central Bank and Interpol Conclude Anti-Counterfeit Currency Agreement On May 12, 2004, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) concluded an agreement to cooperate on combating the counterfeiting of the euro. The... Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 Europe Counterfeiting, International Organizations, European Union
Riggs Bank Problems Leave Foreign Embassies Without Any U.S. Banks Riggs Bank’s problems in managing the accounts of foreign governments—a factor in the recent sale of the bank—has resulted in closing of the Riggs accounts of more than 100 embassies, as of mid-July... Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 United States, Africa, Middle East Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy
EU Justice & Home Affairs Council Meets On June 8, 2004, the Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Union held its 2588th Meeting and continued its progress on a wide range of international enforcement cooperation and criminal... Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 Europe European Union
OECD Holds Global Forum on Tax Policy On June 3-4, Germany hosted in Berlin a meeting of the OECD Global Forum on Taxation to try to put all national approaches to tax matters on a level playing field. Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 World Taxation, Mutual Legal Assistance
U.S. Authorities Seize Advertising Funds for Overseas Online Casinos Tropical Paradise, a Costa Rica-based Internet casino operation, has filed an action in U.S. District Court against Discovery Communications to demand the return of $3.25 million, of which $3.2... Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 United States International Gaming, Jurisdiction, Asset Forfeiture
Dominican Republic Court Dismisses Drug Charges against British Woman On June 9,2004, a panel of 5 judges in the Dominican Republic exonerated a woman whose boyfriend died trying to smuggle several bags of cocaine by swallowing them. Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 United Kingdom, Dominican Republic Jurisdiction, Drugs & Trafficking
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS, ARTICLES AND DOCUMENTS I. Books A. Comparative Criminal Law and Enforcement Cooperation Jeffrey Davidow, The U.S. and Mexico: The Bear and the Porcupine. Markus Wiener Publishers, 254 pp., ISBN 1-55876-334-1. (The U.S... Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 World Bibliography
English Court Holds Extradition Hearings for British Bankers Wanted in Enron Case Hearings were held June 21 and 23 by British courts to review a U.S. request for the extradition of 3 men accused of secret off-balance-sheet investments in an Enron partnership. Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 United States, United Kingdom Extradition, Fraud, White Collar Crime
U.S. Justice Department Finally Decides to Honor Court’s Conditional Extradition Order On June 18, 2004, the U.S. Justice Department agreed to the extradition conditions imposed by a Dominican Republic court. This came one day after initially claiming as “non-binding” the provision... Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 United States, Dominican Republic Extradition, Capital Punishment
Congo Refers Crimes Situation to ICC Prosecutor and U.S. Abandons U.N. Immunity Request On April 19, 2004, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), received a letter from the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) referring to him the... Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 United States, Congo Human Rights, Immunity, United Nations, International Courts
Yugoslav Tribunal Continues in Full Force As the work of the Yugloslav Tribunal reaches at its peak, a key concern is whether it has the ability to implement and enforce its mandates. On June 11, 2004 a 42-page report commissioned by the... Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 Balkans Human Rights, Law of War, War Crimes, International Courts
Sierra Leone Court Upholds Jurisdiction over Former Liberian President and Affirms Recruitment of Children Was a War Crime On May 31, 2004, the Special Court for Sierra Leone denied an application by Charles Taylor, the former President of the Republic of Liberia, to quash his indictment and to set aside the warrant for... Bruce Zagaris 20 8 2004-08-01 Liberia, Sierra Leone Human Rights, Law of War, War Crimes
Analysis of Money Laundering Cases in Canada Published In March 2004, the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption published a study that provides a comprehensive review of money laundering cases in Canada. Updating a prior study... Bruce Zagaris 20 7 2004-07-01 Canada Money Laundering, Terrorism, Organized Crime, White Collar Crime
U.S. Continues Unilateral Crackdown to End Internet Gambling On April 4, 2004, bowing to pressure from the U.S. Government, Google and Yahoo, two of the most widely used Web search engines, announced they would cease running advertisements for online casinos... Bruce Zagaris 20 7 2004-07-01 United States, Antigua & Barbuda Cybercrime, International Gaming, Jurisdiction
U.S., UK, Canada and Australia Form Task to Combat Abusive Tax Shelters During the weekend of April 23, 2004, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada announced they are planning the creation of a Joint International Tax Shelter Information Centre (... Bruce Zagaris 20 7 2004-07-01 Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Australia International Organizations, Taxation
U.S. Announces Racketeering Indictment against Colombian Cartel Leaders On May 6, 2004, the U.S. Government announced the unsealing of the indictment filed on April 29, 2004 in the U.S. District Court in the District of Colombia against nine persons, including six... Bruce Zagaris 20 7 2004-07-01 United States, Colombia Money Laundering, Customs Enforcement, Drugs & Trafficking
Canada and U.S. Arrest Over 140 for International Ecstasy Ring On March 31, 2004, the U.S. and Canadian law enforcement authorities announced the arrest of more than 140 persons in 18 cities for trafficking in Ecstasy or MDMA, and alleged the group supplied... Bruce Zagaris 20 7 2004-07-01 Canada, United States Customs Enforcement, Drugs & Trafficking
First Japanese Denial of U.S. Extradition Request: Economic Espionage Case On March 29, 2004, the Tokyo High Court rejected the U.S. request that a Japanese scientist Takashi Okamoto be extradited to the U.S. to face economic espionage and other related charges. Presiding... Tetsuya Morimoto 20 7 2004-07-01 United States, Japan Extradition, Intelligence, National Security
U.N. Security Council Adopts Resolution to Prevent Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction On April 28, 2004, the United Nations Security Council adopted unanimously a non-proliferation resolution by which it decided that all States must refrain from supporting by any means non-State... Bruce Zagaris 20 7 2004-07-01 World National Security, United Nations

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