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U.S. Arrests on Mexican Extradition Request Alleged Drug Cartel Leader (IIB) |
On May 26, 2000, U.S. authorities arrested Lucio Cano Barraza, 44, in El Paso, and plan to return him to Mexico to face drug and money-laundering charges.
According to Roxanna Irwin, a spokeswoman... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking |
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Yugoslav War Crimes Prosecutor Rejects Petitions to Investigate NATO’s Conduct (XID) |
On June 2, 2000, Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), announced that no basis exists for a formal investigation into whether... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
Balkans |
War Crimes |
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Financial Stability Forum Publishes Ranking of Offshore Financial Centers (IIIA) |
On April 5, 2000, the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) published a list ranking 25 leading offshore financial centers (OFCs) according to their levels of compliance with international standards of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
World |
Securities Law |
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Europol Begins Cooperation with Non-EU States and Bodies to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (XIIA) |
Abstract: Europol is taking multiple steps to initiate cooperation with non-EU states and bodies to combat transnational organized crime. On April 26-27, 2000, Europol organized a first seminar at... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
World, Europe |
European Union, Organized Crime |
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FSF Report Shows Lack of Hard Law Standards and Enforcement of International Supervisory Standards (IIIB) |
The publication on April 5, 2000 of the Financial Stability Forum’s Report of the Working Group on Offshore Centers and the subsequent decision to publish the results reflects a trend to try to... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
World |
Securities Law |
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Ne Bis In Idem In A European Context (IVA) |
The ne bis in idem principle is well established in the law of most European countries. Domestic law provides that a person shall not be prosecuted nor punished for an act, for which he has already... |
Dr. jur. Ilias G. Anagnostopoulos |
16 |
7 |
2000-07-01 |
Europe |
Administration of Justice, Extradition |
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Antigua Agrees to Measures of UN Offshore Forum and Urges Removal of Warnings (IA) |
On April 17, 2000, the media announced that the Government of Antigua and Barbuda had signed an anti-money laundering agreement with the United Nations that requires it to implement various standards... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
United States, United Kingdom, Antigua & Barbuda |
Money Laundering, Fraud |
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Rwanda Tribunal (XIB) |
On March 24, 2000, Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a 76-year-old former Pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mugonero, Kibuye Prefecture, was transferred to the UN Detention Facility in Arusha. On... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Rwanda |
Law of War, Genocide |
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European Parliament Approves Decision on Anti-Money Laundering |
On April 12, 2000, the European Parliament approved legislation in the form of a decision to strengthen the 1991 EU directive on anti-money laundering.
The European Parliament adopted a dozen... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Europe |
Money Laundering |
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War Crimes of the Former Yugoslav (XIC) |
On April 14, 2000, the Croatian Parliament passed a declaration, promising that Croatia will cooperate fully with the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Balkans |
United Nations, War Crimes |
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U.S. and El Salvador Conclude Agreement for Airbase for Anti-Narcotics Flights (IIA) |
On March 31, 2000, Steve Lucas, spokesman for the U.S. military’s Miami-based Southern Command, announced the U.S. Department of State and the Salvadoran Government concluded an agreement, allowing... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
United States, El Salvador |
Drugs & Trafficking |
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Christies Auctions Relics Over PRC Government’s Objections (XIIA) |
On April 30, 2000, Christie’s auctioned two relics despite protests from the People’s Republic of China that the relics had been looted from an imperial palace 140 years ago. The controversy gives... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
China |
Art and Cultural Property |
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OECD Delays Sanctions for One Year, But Plans to Issue Report On Schedule |
On April 24, 2000, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) announced in applying its harmful tax competition initiative that it would defer for one year sanctions it... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Economic Sanctions, Taxation |
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Britain Orders Extradition of 2 Egyptians to the U.S. on Bombing of U.S. Embassies (XIIIA) |
On May 2, 2000, a British court ordered the extradition of Ibrahim Hussein Abdelhadi Eidarous and Adel Mohammed Abdul Almagid Barry to the U.S. where they are wanted in murder conspiracy charges in... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
United States, United Kingdom, Egypt |
Extradition, Terrorism |
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OECD Report on Improving Access to Bank Information For Tax Purposes (IIIB) |
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently issued a report entitled Improving Access to Bank Information for Tax Purposes. The report is 116 pages in length; and the... |
Charles M. Bruce |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Taxation |
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Trinidad Police Conduct Software Piracy Raid after Help from NGO (XIVA) |
On April 16, 2000, the Trinidad and Tobago police reported conducting two raids against suspected computer pirates early during the week as a result of a tip off from the recently established local... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Trinidad & Tobago |
Intellectual Property |
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Israel Holds That 19-Year Old Israeli Can Be Extradited to Canada for Murder (IVA) |
On April 10, 2000, an Israeli court ruled that Daniel Weiz, a 19-year-old Israeli soldier, can be extradited to Canada on murder charges.
Mr. Weiz is charged, along with two Canadian teenagers, for... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Canada, Israel |
Extradition, Murder |
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Books (XVA) |
The Prosecutor of a Permanent International Criminal Court ( Louise Arbour/Albin Eser/Kai Ambos/Andrew Sanders,eds.), International Workshop in co-operation with the Office of the Prosecutor the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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Swiss and Luxembourg Freeze More Nigerian (Abacha) Assets (VA) |
On May 8, 2000, the media reported Swiss investigators have found and frozen $630 million in Luxembourg bank accounts connected with the sons of Sani Abacha, former Nigerian head of state.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
16 |
6 |
2000-06-01 |
Switzerland, Luxembourg |
Asset Forfeiture |
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Articles (XVB) |
1. Theft of Cultural Property
M. Lippman, Art and Ideology in the Third Reich: The Protection of Cultural Property and the Humanitarian Law of War, 17 Dick. J. Int’l L. 1-97 (1998).
M.I. Turner,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
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6 |
2000-06-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
