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EU Brings RICO and Tax Fraud Actions Against Tobacco in the US |
On November 6, 2000, the European Commission announced it has brought an action against the two largest tobacco companies in the United States for alleged involvement in smuggling cigarettes into the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
12 |
2000-12-01 |
United States, Germany, Albania, Serbia |
Taxation |
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On November 6, 2000, the European Commission announced it has brought an action against the two largest tobacco companies in the United States for alleged involvement in smuggling cigarettes into the European Union’s fifteen member states. |
On February 2, 2000, Judge J.A. Sharpe, Court Of Appeal for Ontario, affirmed the order releasing Kwok Yeung Chan on bail pending a U.S. extradition request.
On January 18, 2000, Judge LaForme... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
12 |
2000-12-01 |
Canada, United States |
Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking |
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Hong Kong Orders Extradition to US on Securities Fraud Case |
On November 12, 1999, a Hong Kong court dismissed an application from a Mr. Cosby relating to an order by the Chief Executive to extradite Cosby.
The U.S. requested the extradition of Cosby for an... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
12 |
2000-12-01 |
United States, China |
Extradition, Fraud |
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India Requests Extradition Swedish National on Corruption for Arms Sales |
On October 16, 2000, the media noted that the Swedish Government is under new pressure to re-examine the extradition of Martin Ardbo, the former chief of Bofors, the Swedish armaments company, whose... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
12 |
2000-12-01 |
Pakistan, , India |
Extradition, Arms Trafficking |
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Ex-US Sergeant Pleads Guilty in US Embassy Bombing as the Court Rejects Another Defendant’s Plea |
On October 20, 2000, Ali Mohamed, a former U.S. Army sergeant, pleaded guilty to conspiring with fugitive Osama bin Laden in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, marking the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
12 |
2000-12-01 |
United States, Afghanistan, Kenya |
Terrorism |
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Cyprus Freeze Serb Accounts at Request of War Crimes Tribunal |
On October 27, 2000, the media reported the Cyprus Government has imposed a freeze on between 10 and 15 accounts of businesses suspected of ties with Slobodan Milosevic. The freeze order was issued... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
12 |
2000-12-01 |
Serbia |
War Crimes, Asset Forfeiture |
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Austrian Police Arrest Fugitive U.S. Businessman Convicted of Fraud |
On October 25, 2000, law enforcement officials reported that Shalom Weiss, a millionaire U.S. businessman and financier who disappeared in October 1999, was arrested in Vienna, Austria.
In November... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
12 |
2000-12-01 |
United States, Austria |
Administration of Justice, Fraud |
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Argentina Requests the Extradition of Pinochet in Connection with 1974 Assassination |
On October 27, 2000, the Argentine Government formally requested the extradition of Chilean former head of state Augusto Pinochet in connection with the 1974 assassination of Gen. Carlos Prats, a... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
12 |
2000-12-01 |
Chile, Argentina |
Extradition, Human Rights, International Courts |
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Germany and Lithuania Restore Cultural Property |
During a one week period, German and Lithuania acted to restore art taken during World War II.
2. German Restoration
On September 25, 2000, two German museums at a Berlin ceremony returned more... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Germany, Lithuania |
Customs Enforcement, War Crimes |
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U.S. Antitrust Head Calls for Global Forum and Initiative for Antitrust Enforcement Cooperation |
On September 14, 2000, Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, called for initiatives and a new forum to strengthen antitrust enforcement... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, Belgium |
Customs Enforcement, Economic Sanctions, Economic Integration |
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Recommends Ratification of Criminal Cooperation Treaties |
The extradition treaties involved are Paraguay, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Belize.
On September 12, 2000, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate held a hearing on and then approved... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, France, Nigeria, South Africa, Greece, Egypt, Ukraine |
Customs Enforcement, Extradition, European Union, Mutual Legal Assistance |
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Supervisory Committee Issues First Report on OLAF and Warns of Operational Problems |
At the end of its first year of operation, the Supervisory Committee for OLAF – the European Union’s Anti-Fraud Office – has issued its first annual report. This report, apart from evaluating the... |
Tom L.W. Scheirs |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Europe |
European Union, Fraud |
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FBI Detects Fraud in Panama Bonds |
On October 5, 2000, the media reported the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation had detected an attempt to market bonds alleged in the amount of $100 million supposedly for the municipality of Colón... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, Panama |
Fraud |
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OAS Ministers of Justice Hold Third Meeting |
On March 1-3, 2000, the third meeting of the Ministers of Justice or of Ministers of Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA) took place.
Two areas that were the subject of focus were cyber crime... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Canada, United States, Latin America and South America, Caribbean |
Cybercrime, Administration of Justice, Mutual Legal Assistance |
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Kosovo Local Court Sentences Serb Student for War Crimes |
On September 20, 2000, a local court with Kosovo Albanian judges and one French judge sentenced Milos Jokic, 21, to 20 years in prison for killing ethnic Albanians in the first trial for war crimes... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
France, Albania, Serbia |
Extradition, Human Rights, War Crimes, Genocide |
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U.S. Presses UN to Establish War Crimes Tribunal for Saddam Hussein |
On September 18, 2000, the Clinton Administration pressed the United Nations to establish a war crimes tribunal to try Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials in the deaths of up to 250,000... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait |
Human Rights, United Nations, War Crimes, International Courts |
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House of Lords Affirms Extradition to US for Probation Violation |
On June 15, 2000, the House of Lords unanimously affirmed the extradition to the U.S. of Mr. Burke whose extradition was requested after he violated his supervised release.
On September 14, 1992,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, United Kingdom |
Extradition |
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French Initiative on Money Laundering Cooperation |
On August 24, 2000, the French Government initiated the adoption of a Council Framework Decision on money laundering, the identification, tracing, freeing, seizing and confiscation of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Europe, France |
Money Laundering, European Union, Asset Forfeiture |
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UN Prosecutor Prepares for New Indictment Against Milosevic |
In the aftermath of Milosevic’s resignation from office, Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), is preparing a new indictment... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
Netherlands, Serbia |
War Crimes, Genocide, International Courts |
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U.S. District Court Requires Release |
On June 28, 2000, the U.S. District Court in Tampa granted a Motion for Summary Judgment to a publishing and media companies and order the U.S. Department of Commerce to release records from 1996 to... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
11 |
2000-11-01 |
United States, Cuba |
Customs Enforcement, National Security |