Articles

E.g., 2026-06
Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty under Siege The author, a political science professor at Florida International University and a specialist on Caribbean security matters, promotes that the drug phenomenon in the Caribbean constitutes a security... Bruce Zagaris 14 3 1998-03-01 United States, Caribbean Corruption, Arms Trafficking, Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime, Book Review
EU Members Sign Customs Enforcement Cooperation Convention On December 18, 1998, representatives of fifteen European Union Members signed the Naples II Convention on Mutual Assistance and Cooperation between Customs Administrations, obligating themselves to... Bruce Zagaris 14 3 1998-03-01 Europe Customs Enforcement, Mutual Legal Assistance, Treaties
Second Regional Meeting on Drug Control Coordination and Cooperation in the Caribbean Reviews Progress on Plan of Action During December 8-9, 1997, the Second Regional Meeting on Drug Control Coordination and Cooperation was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A Declaration addressed future efforts to implement... Bruce Zagaris 14 3 1998-03-01 Caribbean Drugs & Trafficking, International Cooperation
Swiss Highest Court Upholds Freeze on Mobutu’s Assets On February 10, 1998, the Swiss Federal Tribunal, its highest court, upheld a freeze on the assets of the estate of Mobutu Sese Seko, the late dictator of Congo, pending the Congo’s request to... Bruce Zagaris 14 3 1998-03-01 Switzerland, Congo Asset Forfeiture
Dominican Republic Arrests Fugitive U.S. Doctor On February 14, 1998, the media reported the arrest two days before by Dominican Republic authorities of Dr. Rafael Gonzalez Pantaleon, a former government official and member of the political party... Bruce Zagaris 14 3 1998-03-01 United States, Dominican Republic Extradition, Fraud
Extradition Under the New Polish Legislation of 1997 1. Constitution of the Republic of Poland On April 2, 1997, the Polish National Assembly adopted an entirely new Constitution which shows almost no resemblance to the previous Constitution of 1952... Michael Plachta 14 3 1998-03-01 Poland Extradition
Colombia Prosecutor Investigates Checks from Cali Drug Cartel On January 7, 1998, the international media reported the investigation by Colombian deputy attorney general Jaime Cordoba, whose office is reviewing 10,000 checks to establish links between drug... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 Colombia Corruption, Bank Secrecy, Drugs & Trafficking
Texas Magistrate Denies Surrender to Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal On December 17, 1997, a Texas magistrate denied a surrender request by the Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal for the only person arrested on behalf of the Tribunal, thereby posing a major temporary setback... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 United States Law of War, United Nations, War Crimes, International Courts
Dominican Republican Connection Looms Large in Florida Money Laundering Connections On January 13, 1998, one of the biggest money-laundering trials in years in South Florida ended with the conviction of the head of a massive cocaine-trafficking network on 69 drug and laundering... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 United States, Dominican Republic Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking
U.S. Class Action Litigation Brought Against French Banks At the end of December 1997, French survivors of the Holocaust filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York against a group of banks that had operations in Vichy France during the... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 United States, France Law of War, Holocaust, Property Restitution
U.S. Appellate Court Upholds Application of Wire Fraud Laws to Foreign Tax Fraud On December 5, 1997, U.S. law enforcement and revenue officials obtained a victory when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overruled the dismissal of an indictment that alleged money... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 Canada, United States Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Taxation, Fraud, Tax Crimes
EU Establishes Mechanism to Evaluate Member Implementation of Measures to Combat Organized Crime On December 5, 1997, the Council Adopted a Joint Action under Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union (EU) to establish a mechanism for evaluating the application and implementation at the... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 Europe Organized Crime, International Cooperation, Law Enforcement
Canada Prepares Extradition Law for War Crimes The Canadian executive is preparing a bill that would enable authorities to extradite suspected war criminals whose surrender is sought by international tribunals... [more] Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 Canada Extradition, War Crimes, International Courts
Bibliography of Books 1. Banking and Money Laundering Cees D. Schaap, Fighting Money Laundering (1997), ISBN: 90-411-0728-2. (The work covers the new Netherlands Antillean legislation on money laundering and suggests... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 World Bibliography
Guinea Deports U.S. National Wanted For Murder and Narcotics Trafficking On January 7, 1998, the Guinean Government, working with U.S. authorities, arrested and then deported Nathan Hill, who is wanted in Chicago on murder and drug-trafficking charges and was named to the... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 United States, Guinea Extradition, Murder, Drugs & Trafficking, Deportation
Bibliography of Book Reviews Beth Stephens & Michael Ratner, International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts (1996), reviewed by Ralph Steinhardt, 91 A.J.I.L. 755-57. Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 World Bibliography, Book Review
St. Vincent Deports Two German Nationals on Fraud Charges On January 12, 1998, the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines deported Michel Wieland and his fifteen-year-old lover, Manuela, to Germany, where Wieland is wanted on fraud charges... [more] Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 Germany, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Extradition, Fraud, Deportation
Bibliography of Documents 1. Taxation Gibbs International v. Internal Revenue Service, ___ F.3d ___ (4th Cir. 1997), 80 ATR2d Para.97-5536. No. 96-2790). (A U.S. appellate court upheld the lower court decision that the IRS... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 World Bibliography
U.S. and Canada Plan Cooperation to Combat Telemarketing Fraud On November 20, 1997, in the wake of a decision by a Canadian appellate court that denied the U.S. extradition request for Canadian defendants in telemarketing cases, the U.S.-Canada Working Group on... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 Canada, United States Extradition, Fraud, International Cooperation, Law Enforcement
AIDP Colloquium on Organized Crime and International Cooperation On May 13-17, 1998, a preparatory Colloquium of the Association International de Droit Penal (AIDP) on Organized Crime and International Cooperation in Criminal Matters will be organized in Utrecht,... Bruce Zagaris 14 2 1998-02-01 World Organized Crime, Conferences, International Cooperation

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