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Congress Considers Three Bills to Extend Economic Sanctions to Narcotics Traffickers |
U.S. narcoterrorism policy in the Western Hemisphere has recently been prominent for the loss of five U.S. lives in Colombia, during public discussion between the Administration and Congress of the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
9 |
1999-09-01 |
United States |
Drugs & Trafficking, Export Enforcement |
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Commonwealth Law Ministers Agree to Act on High-Tech Crimes, Human Rights, and Money Laundering |
In May 1999, at their meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, the Commonwealth Law Ministers decided to act on the high-tech and computer crimes, the balance between individual rights and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
9 |
1999-09-01 |
British Commonwealth |
Money Laundering, Human Rights, International Organizations |
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Confidentiality, Money Laundering, And Asset Forfeiture: A Financial Action Task Force Issues Annual Report |
On July 2, 1999, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Money Laundering issued its annual report for 1998-99... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
9 |
1999-09-01 |
World |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy |
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EU Commission Implements Measures to Combat Child Sex Tourism |
On May 25, 1999, the Commission of the European Communities issued a paper on implementing measures to combat child sex tourism that indicates a variety of ongoing and proposed mechanisms to... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
9 |
1999-09-01 |
Europe |
International Organizations, Sex Crimes |
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International Money Laundering Investigations Of Russians Come To The Fore |
On August 17, 1999, the revelation of a major investigation of the Bank of New York has spotlighted large international money laundering investigations by several countries involving prominent... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-09-01 |
United States, United Kingdom, Russia |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy |
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Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal Obtains 2 More Suspects As New Prosecutor Is Appointed |
On August 3 and 9, 1999, the International Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia gained custody of two more suspects as the Tribunal also prepared for a new prosecutor. Meanwhile, on... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
9 |
1999-09-01 |
Former Yugoslavia |
International Organizations, Law of War |
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NATO Troops Arrest Serb Parliament Member on War Crimes |
On July 6, 1999, British NATO troops arrested Radoslav Brdjanin, a senior Bosnian Serb member of Parliament and former deputy prime minister of Bosnia’s peacetime Serb Republic, for charges of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
Serbia, Bosnia |
Law of War |
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Judge Hoeveler Dismisses All But One Charge and then Sentences Cali Cartel Lawyers |
On June 12 and 17, 1999, U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler sentenced William Moran and Michael Abbell, former defense counsel for the Cali cartel, after throwing out all but one charge, thereby... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Colombia |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Drugs & Trafficking |
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Seattle and German Museums Return Looted Art and New York Museum Settles |
Increasingly, art museums are agreeing to return stolen cultural property and in some cases settling with private owners... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Germany |
Art and Cultural Property |
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France Convicts Noriega and Wife of Money Laundering |
On July 1, 1999, a French court convicted Gen. Manuel Noriega and his wife in absentia of laundering $2.7 million in drug profits through French banks for Colombia’s Medillin drug cartel in 1988 and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
France |
Money Laundering |
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British Arrests Two Suspects in U.S. Embassy Bombings as U.S. Applies Sanctions Against Afghanistan for Hosting Bin Laden |
On July 11, 1999, British police arrested two men in London on a U.S. warrant charging them with conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, United Kingdom, Kenya, tanzania, Afghanistan |
Terrorism |
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Jamaica Gang Leader to U.S. on Narcotics and Racketeering Charges |
On July 8, 1999, Jamaican officials extradited Vivian Blake, the alleged leader of the Shower Posse and one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, to the U.S. on eight counts of racketeering, drug... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Jamaica |
Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking |
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U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds U.S. International Counterrorism Law |
On June 25, 1999, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the designations of U.S. Secretary of State Madeline K. Albright for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Iran |
Terrorism |
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Dutch Demand 16 Years Jail for Former Surinam Ruler for Drug Offenses |
On June 30, 1999, Dutch prosecutors demanded sixteen years imprisonment for Desi Bouterse, former military ruler of Surinam, in connection with accusations that he lead an organization responsible... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
Netherlands |
Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking |
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Clinton Proposes Initiatives to Counter Bio- and Cyber-Terrorism |
On January 22, 1999, President Clinton announced he will undertake initiatives against biological and chemical as well cyber-terrorism, including spending $1.46 billion in his fiscal 2000 budget to... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States |
Terrorism |
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Colombians Arrest 5 Persons Indicted in the U.S. for Cocaine Trafficking |
On July 8, 1999, in an operation sure to test the 1997 U.S.-Colombian extradition treaty, Colombian officials arrest five persons accused o masterminding a scheme to transport tons of cocaine into... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Colombia |
Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking |
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Inter-American Port Security Training Program Helps to Combat Seaport Crime |
In June 1999, the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD), U.S. Department of Transportation, published a report about the Inter-American Port Security Training Program, which is a U.S./Organization of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Latin America and South America |
Maritime |
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Mexico Extradites Major Drug-Trafficker to the U.S. and Recent Developments in U.S.-Mexico Extradition |
Extradition matters between Mexico and the United States have recently been of a mixed nature. On one hand, issues have arisen in Mexican courts that may eventually pose some difficulties. On the... |
Rodrigo Labardini |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Mexico |
Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking |
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Defending U.S. Citizens and Corporations in Cross Border Proceedings, Extradition, Mutual Assistance, and Asset Seizures: A French Perspective |
The small number of cases related to asset forfeiture made them all the more interesting. The validity of a search and seizure measure in execution of an international rogatory letter shall only be... |
Francois Serres and Miss Elodie LeGal |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Europe, France |
Comparative and International Law |
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U.S. and Cuba Enforcement Cooperation May Presage Larger Opening |
During June and July 1999, the U.S. and Cuban governments have discussed strengthening enforcement cooperation on narcotics and alien smuggling, a development that has repeated similar patterns... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
Cuba, United States |
Adjective Enforcement |