The International Enforcement Law Reporter is a monthly print and online journal covering news and trends in international enforcement law.
Since September 1985, the International Enforcement Law Reporter has analyzed the premier developments in both the substantive and procedural aspects of international enforcement law. Read by practitioners, academics, and politicians, the IELR is a valuable guide to the difficult and dynamic field of international law.
On October 27, 2017, a French court found Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue, 48, and the second Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, guilty of embezzlement in absentia. The court gave him a three-year suspended prison sentence, a suspended 30 million euros ($34.78 million) fine, and ordered the confiscation of more than 100 million euros worth of his French assets.
On October 25, 2017, a U.S. District Court grand jury in Dallas, Texas returned two indictments against five Chinese citizens and four companies alleging fraud and other charges concerning sales of stimulants intended for inclusion in dietary supplements.
On October 29, 2017, a United States team of commandos seized Mustafa al-Imam, a suspect in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya and brought him to a U.S. warship and are returning him to the U.S. to face criminal charges.
On October 24, 2017, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the legitimate measures to protect whistle-blowers acting in the public interest. The non-legislative resolution was passed by 399 votes to 101, with 166 abstentions.
An indictment charges Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman of the Trump Presidential campaign, with conspiracy, failure to report foreign bank accounts, money laundering, and failure to register as a foreign agent for his work with the Ukrainian government.
On October 16, 2017, the Supreme Court granted the Department of Justice’s petition for a writ of certiorari in its dispute with Microsoft over access to private emails stored at Microsoft’s Dublin, Ireland data center. At issue is whether the warrant provisions of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) apply extraterritorially, such that they compel Microsoft, an electronic service provider, to produce private electronic communications stored on servers in Ireland for the United States government.
On October 12, 2017, the Office of the Swiss Attorney General (OAG) opened a criminal proceeding against the former Secretary General of FIFA and against the Chief Executive Office of the BEIN Media Group LLC concerning the award of World Cup media rights.
On October 13, 2017, speaking at the Global Cyber Security Summit in London, England, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein pleaded for technology companies to implement responsible encryption and cooperate with law enforcement.
Two recent OFAC penalty settlements – the first involving Cartier “Richemont” and the second against White Birch USA – demonstrate the need for compliance for retailers.
