Articles

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Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
Financial Action Task Force Issues Annual Typologies Report On February 10, 1999, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issued the 1998-99 Report on Money Laundering Typologies. Bruce Zagaris 15 3 1999-03-01 United Kingdom Banking Supervision
Challenges in Representing Criminal Alien Defendants: International Immigration and Criminal Law Issues On January 29, 1999, the International Criminal and National Security Law Committee, Section of International Law, D.C. Bar Association, hosted a seminar on issues in representing criminal alien... Bruce Zagaris 15 3 1999-03-01 World Immigration
Owner of Bombed Sudanese Pharmaceutical Plants Presses the U.S. for Compensation and Release of Frozen Funds An interesting legal and political battle is developing as counsel for Saudi Arabian businessman Saleh Idris, whose pharmaceutical plant in Sudan was destroyed in a U.S. missile attack on August 20,... Bruce Zagaris 15 3 1999-03-01 United States Freezing of Assets
New Canadian Anti-Bribery Law Takes Effect on February 15, 1999 News that Salt Lake City officials paid bribes to members of the International Olympic Committee has brought the Olympics into disrepute. John Keefe 15 3 1999-03-01 Canada Bribery
Lockerbie Settlement with Libya Closer Negotiations have made the prospects of a settlement for the surrender of the two Libyan suspects that are suspected of planting the bomb in the 1988 bombing of a Pan American flight over Lockerbie,... Bruce Zagaris 15 3 1999-03-01 Libya Settlement
Croatia Stops Investigation Against Nada Sakic for Lack of Evidence On February 1, 1999, Croatian State prosecutor Radovan Santek stopped the investigation and released from custody Nada Sakic due to lack of evidence in the charges against her for crimes committed at... Bruce Zagaris 15 3 1999-03-01 Croatia Investigation
Russia Conducts Criminal Investigation of Central Bank Officials On December 29, 1998, Russian Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin disclosed that Russian law enforcement authorities are investigating Central Bank activities that may have contributed to the mid-... Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 Russia Money Laundering, Corruption, Embezzlement
Class Action Holocaust Suit Is Brought Against Chase and J.P. Morgan On December 23, 1998, the media reported the first class action lawsuit brought on behalf of 17 named non-American Holocaust survivors and victims’ relatives against two U.S. banks, Chase Manhattan... Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 United States, France, Germany Law of War
Cayman Rejects International Criminal Cooperation on Tax Crimes The Cayman Islands have rejected demands by England that it render criminal cooperation to foreign governments investigating tax crimes. The rejection illustrates the growing tension between small... Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 United Kingdom, Cayman Islands Taxation
French SFOR Troops Kill Serb Suspect Resisting Arrest While Bosnian Serb Denies War Crimes and Milosevic Denies Entry to War Crimes Prosecutor On January 9, 1999, French troops shot and killed Dragan Gagovic, a suspected Bosnian Serb war criminal as he prepared to ram the soldiers with his vehicle at a mountain roadblock established to... Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 France, Former Yugoslavia Law of War
PRC Acts to Stop Illegal Fees Imposed on Foreign Investors On January 5, 1999, the official China Daily reported steps to stop the imposition of illegal fees on foreign investors and to strengthen the transparency of its administration... [more] Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 China Taxation
Paraguay and U.S. Agree on Intellectual Property Cooperation On November 17, 1998, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky announced in a press release that, just in time to avoid the threat of U.S. trade sanctions, Paraguay and the U.S. concluded a... Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 United States, Paraguay Intellectual Property
U.S. Tobacco Subsidiary Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Cigarettes to Evade Tax On December 22, 1998, Northern Brands, a subsidiary of U.S. tobacco multinational R.J. Reynolds, pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay the U.S. $15 million for its role in a massive smuggling... Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 Canada, United States Customs Enforcement, Taxation
U.S. Investigates Potential Wrongdoing in Economic Investor Visas U.S. Government investigators are looking at a Greenbelt, Maryland firm that aggressively marketed opportunities to take advantage of the U.S. economic investment program... [more] Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 United States Immigration, Fraud
: IRS Official Warns the U.S. Will Intensify Compliance against Tax Havens and the Offshore On January 14, 1999, in a speech at the 17th annual international tax conference of the Florida Bar Association Tax Section and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, John Lyons, IRS... Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 United States Taxation, Fraud
Council of Europe Promulgates Convention on Protection of the Environment Through Criminal Law : On November 16, 1998, seven countries signed the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law, which opened for signature November 4, 1998... [more] Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 Europe Environment
British Law Lords Reject Effort of British National to Fight Extradition to Germany for Fraud In 1997, the House of Lords denied an appeal from the denial of a habeas corpus application by Ismail, a British national, from a extradition request on fraud charges in Germany... [more] Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 United Kingdom Extradition
Books ABA 10th Annual Money Laundering Enforcement Seminar (ABA, Nov. 2-3, 1998, 833 pp. International Chamber of Commerce, Guide to the Prevention of Money Laundering (June 1998) ...[more] Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 World Bibliography
Mexico Orders Extradition of Mexican National Amezcua On January 14, 1999, the Mexican Government announced its authorization to extradite a Mexican citizen and alleged drug lord, Jesus Amezcua, to the U.S. where he is charged in federal indictments for... Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 United States, Mexico Extradition
Mexico Pursues Cabal Peniche and Other Fugitive Bankers On January 11, 1998, hearings were held in a court in Melbourne, Australia concerning the Mexican Government’s extradition request against Carlos Cabal Peniche, who is residing in Melbourne, as... Bruce Zagaris 15 2 1999-02-01 Mexico, Australia Money Laundering, Extradition

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