Articles

E.g., 2026-10
Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
EU Issues Report on Strategy to Prevent Organized Crime Following the May 2001 European Union Forum on the prevention of organized crime, the EU Commission issued a working paper on its strategy to prevent organized crime. The report arises from a... Bruce Zagaris 17 9 2001-09-01 Europe European Union, Organized Crime
U.S. Congress Holds Hearing on U.S. Position on Offshore Tax Havens On July 18, 2001, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on the U.S. Position on Offshore Tax Havens, designed to press the Bush Administration to take vigorous... Bruce Zagaris 17 9 2001-09-01 United States Taxation
U.S. Congress Considers Conflict Diamonds Law In March 2001 Representative Tony Hall, with the support of 80 other Congressmen, submitted a bill aimed at placing controls on the importation of conflict diamonds Titled “Clean Diamonds Act.” The... Meredith Beach 17 9 2001-09-01 Africa Economic Sanctions
U.N. Report Calls for Creation of Organization to Help with International Tax Enforcement On July 6, 2001, the United Nations released a report calling for the examination of creating an International Tax Organization (ITO), whose powers would include helping curb international tax... Bruce Zagaris 17 9 2001-09-01 World Taxation, United Nations
Canadian Court Orders Surrender to Thailand on Fraud Conspiracy In 2000, the Supreme Court of the British Columbia dismissed preliminary objections of S and ordered S’s committal for surrender to the Kingdom of Thailand on charges of conspiracy of fraud. The... Bruce Zagaris 17 9 2001-09-01 Canada, Thailand Extradition, Fraud
France Extradites Einhorn to the U.S. On July 19, 2001, France handed over Ira Einhorn to the U.S., ending an extradition battle that had carried on approximately four years. On July 12, 2001, the Council of State, France’s highest... Bruce Zagaris 17 9 2001-09-01 United States, France Extradition
U.S. Hands Over U.S. Airman and Rape Suspect to Japan On July 5, 2001, the United States handed over U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Timothy B. Woodland, 24, to face rape charges, thereby temporarily ending a volatile dispute that threatened the continued... Bruce Zagaris 17 9 2001-09-01 United States, Japan Extradition, Immunity, Jurisdiction
ICJ Hears German Suit Against U.S. for Executions and Violations of Consular Rights On November 13, 2000, the International Court of Justice held a hearing on the German suit against the United States, claiming the U.S. had violated international agreements by failing to accord two... Bruce Zagaris 17 1 2001-09-01 United States, Germany War Crimes, Capital Punishment
U.S. and Mexico Agree to Exchange Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Officials On July 25, 2001, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the U.S. and Mexico would start exchanging prosecutors and law enforcement officials to work in each other’s Attorney General’s... Bruce Zagaris 17 9 2001-09-01 United States, Mexico Drugs & Trafficking, Mutual Legal Assistance
Milosevic Turned Over to the ICC On June 28, 2001, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The decision to send Mr. Milosevic to the ICTY... Bruce Zagaris 17 8 2001-08-01 Balkans Human Rights, War Crimes, International Courts
Book Review: Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 1994-1999 This second volume in the series “Annotated Cases of International Criminal Tribunals” has decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Part 1 discusses preliminary matters... Bruce Zagaris 17 8 2001-08-01 Rwanda War Crimes
Uncertainty and Jockeying Continue on U.S. Position Towards ICC With the increasing approach of the next meeting of the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court scheduled for New York on September 24, 2001, the time for decision approaches for... Bruce Zagaris 17 8 2001-08-01 United States International Courts
FATF Issues 12th Annual Report For 2000-2001 On June 22, 2001, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) issued its twelfth annual report. In accordance with the priorities agreed to in the review of the FATF’s purposes from... Bruce Zagaris 17 8 2001-08-01 World Money Laundering, International Organizations
EU Decides to Support Early Ratification and Implementation of the ICC On June 11, 2001, the General Affairs Council of the European Union (EU) adopted the EU common position on the International Criminal Court agreeing that they would enter into an early ratification... Meredith Beach 17 8 2001-08-01 Europe European Union, International Courts
FATF Removes 4 and Adds 6 Jurisdictions to the Non-Cooperative List On June 22, 2001, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering published its twelfth annual report. In addition, the FATF published a review of non-cooperative jurisdictions, in which it... Bruce Zagaris 17 8 2001-08-01 World International Organizations, Taxation
The Council of Europe and the Draft Convention On Cyber Crime The Council of Europe (CoE) has been concerned with the growing problem of international computer-related crimes (“cyber crimes”) since the late 1980’s. In 1989, the CoE published a study... Diana C. Durham 17 8 2001-08-01 Europe Cybercrime
Egmont Accepts Bahamas as FIU Member The Egmont Group has accepted the Bahamas as its 54th member. The Egmont Group provides a forum for Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) as a support to their national anti-money laundering programs... Bruce Zagaris 17 8 2001-08-01 Bahamas Money Laundering
Vanuatu’s Efforts to Enter the First-Rank of Off-Shore Laundering Centers Since the 1970s, Vanuatu, a Southern Pacific island chain with a population of some 190,000 citizens, has been a well-known tax haven. The economy of Vanuatu, which relies largely on sugar cane... Trifin J. Roule and Jason Venner 17 8 2001-08-01 Vanuatu Money Laundering, Corruption
Antiguan Prime Minister Proposes Inclusion of Counterdrug Mechanism in Single Market On June 13, 2001, the Caribbean media reported that at the opening of the fourth joint meeting of the Inter-Governmental Task Force on Drugs and Ministers responsible for National Security Antigua... Bruce Zagaris 17 8 2001-08-01 Caribbean International Organizations, Drugs & Trafficking
Mexico Arrests Alleged Cocaine Smuggling Kingpins as U.S. Unseals Indictment On June 13, 2001, the Mexican Government announced the arrest of Alcides Ramón Magaña, one of the twelve persons listed as “drug kingpins” by the U.S., in the southern city of Villahermosa as the U.S... Bruce Zagaris 17 8 2001-08-01 United States, Mexico Drugs & Trafficking

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