Articles

E.g., 2026-10
Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
U.S. Closes Anti-Drug Base in Panama and Opens New Missions in Ecuador and Dutch Antilles On May 5, 1999, the U.S. closed its anti-drug trafficking mission in Panama and announced that it would operate missions out of Curacao, Aruba and Ecuador although its overall capabilities would be... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Aruba, Curaçao, Panama, United States, World Drugs & Trafficking
U.S. Gaming Commission Will Recommend Criminalization of Offshore Internet Gaming On April 28, 1999, the U.S. media reported that the National Gambling Impact Study Commission will recommend to criminalize offshore Internet gambling, thereby setting the stage for inevitable... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 United States International Gaming
Bolivia Requests Extradition of Former President and Suspends Counterdrug Efforts On November 1, 2008, Bolivian President Evo Morales of Bolivia suspended counterdrug operations sponsored by the U.S. government. Meanwhile, on November 11, 2008, Bolivian officials said they had... Bruce Zagaris 25 1 1999-06-01 United States, Bolivia Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking, Mutual Legal Assistance, Treaties
IRS Criminal Investigation Division Recommends Stronger International Operations On April 13, 1999, a high-level task force headed by former CIA and FBI Director William Webster, issued a report with recommendations on international operations of the Internal Revenue Service’s... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Bolivia, Canada, Mexico, United States Money Laundering, Organized Crime, Taxation
U.S. Requests Israel to Hold Part of Sheinbein Trial in the U.S. On April 19, 1999, the U.S. Government on behalf of Montgomery County, Maryland’s chief prosecutor, Attorney Douglas Gansler, has sent Israeli authorities a letter, requesting that Sheinbein’s trial... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Israel, United States Extradition, Murder
Recent UN Gen. Assembly Measures to Adopt Instruments Combating International Terrorism Over the years, the international legal community has been successful in adopting a considerable number of instruments addressing specific aspects of international terrorism. These instruments can be... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 World Asset Forfeiture, Terrorism, United Nations
Brazil Transfers Chilean Kidnappers to Chile to Complete Sentences On April 24, 1999, the Brazilian Government announced that on that day it would transfer five Chileans convicted in the 1989 kidnaping of a leading Brazilian businessman to Chile to complete their... Bruce Zagaris 15 6 1999-06-01 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile Kidnaping, Mutual Legal Assistance, Transfer of Prisoners
UN Will Use Satellite Monitoring to Identify Illegal Drug Cultivation During the third week of March, 1999, the United Nations International Drug Control Program obtained the approval at the annual meeting in Vienna of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to use its own... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 World Drug Enforcement
Pinochet II The House of Lords issued its second substantive decision in the Pinochet extradition case on 24 March 1999 after having revoked the first because of a conflict of interest due to contacts by one of... Dr. Kai Ambos 15 5 1999-05-01 Chile Human Rights
Editor's Note: British Home Secretary Allows Extradition to Proceed On April 15, 1999, British Home Secretary Jack Straw announced he was allowing the Pinochet extradition to proceed, stating the remaining allegations of torture and conspiracy to torture satisfy the... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 United Kingdom Extradition
Mexico Extradites to the U.S. a Mexican National Charged With Drug Trafficking Mexican authorities recently extradited to U.S. authorities a Mexican national charged with drug trafficking and espcaping from a U.S. federal prison. Rodrigo Labardini 15 5 1999-05-01 Mexico Drugs & Trafficking
Mexico Releases Last of 19 Americans Arrested for Arms Trafficking On March 12, 1999, a Chihuahua court ordered the dismissal of all charges against Robert Brown, a Birmingham, Alabama man arrested August 30, 1999, in Juárez on arms-smuggling charges after he... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Mexico Arms Trafficking
French Police and Interpol Penetrate International Vehicle Theft Racket On March 27, 1999, Mexican prosecutors and Interpol announced police have detected and penetrated an international auto theft ring whose members stole luxury vehicles in Mexico and the U.S. and sold... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 France Vehicles
U.S. National Study Will Recommend Banning Internet Gaming On March 19, 1999, the nine-member congressionally appointed National Gambling Impact Study Commission ordered to study the social and economic effects of gambling announced it will seek a broad... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 United States Internet Crime
U.S. and Israel Antitrust Cooperation Agreement and U.S. Secures Conviction in Price Fixing of Worldwide Sale of Vitamins In March 1999, two important developments occurred in international anti-trust enforcement: on March 14, 1999, the U.S. and Israel concluded an enforcement agreement; and on March 2, 1999, the U.S.... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Israel Antitrust Cooperation
War Crimes Tribunal Investigators Recommend Indictment against Warning about Kosovo On March 21, 1999, a front-page article in the New York Times revealed that investigators have recommended the indictment of three Croatian generals for summary executions, indiscriminate shelling of... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Kosovo War Crimes
Holocaust The French and Swiss Government and industry continued to deal with efforts of victims and their representatives to obtain compensation and accountability for injuries during the Holocaust. Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 France Holocaust
Rwanda Tribunal Releases Former Army Officer Accused of Murdering Ten Belgian Peacekeepers; Cameroon Arrests 3 Accused Former Rwanda Ministers; and Swiss Try Former Rwandan Mayor Efforts to invesitgate and prosecute atrocities from the Rwandan conflict are occupying the Rwandan Tribunal and other governments, including two European governments.  Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Rwanda War Crimes
Kosovo Conflict Produces Many Legal International Criminal Law Issues The conflict in Kosovo has produced thousands of international criminal law issues and is a laboratory for their resolution. Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Kosovo International Criminal and Comparative Law
European Parliament Passes Resolution Urging Adoption of Second Commission Report to Extend Money Laundering Directive On March 9, 1999, the European Parliament passed a resolution reommending extension of the Council Directive 91/308 of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of... Bruce Zagaris 15 5 1999-05-01 Europe Money Laundering

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