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 May 12, 2016 UK Prime Minister David Cameron hosted an Anti Corruption Summit in London. As a participant, the United States in a State Department press release made several pledges to combat international corruption.
On April 14, 2016 at the meeting of the Finance Ministers and Central bank Governors of the G20, a 12 point communique was released along with a 9 point Annex and a 9 point "issues of further action". One of the twelve points addressed global initiatives to promote tax transparency, including the G20 requirement that the OECD establish objective criteria to identify non-cooperative jurisdictions with respect to tax transparency by its July 2016 meeting.
If he becomes president, Donald Trump plans to force Mexico to pay for a border wall by threatening to cut off the flow of billions of dollars in payments that immigrants send home to the country. This proposal would jeopardize a cash source that many economists say is crucial in keeping Mexico's struggling economy afloat. For example, in 2015, nearly $25 billion was sent home by Mexicans living abroad. However, this estimation includes money sent from around the world, not just the United States.
A U.N. war crimes tribunal acquitted ultranationalist politician Vojislav Seselj of atrocities on Thursday in a rare courtroom victory for a Serb defendant. Seselj had been charged with crimes that included persecution, murder and torture and was facing a 28-year setnece for his support of Serb paramilitaries during the Balkan Wars in the early 1990s. A three-judge panel's majority decision to acquit Seselj of all charges on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence linking him to the crimes sparked joy in Serbia and deep anger in Bosnia and Croatia.
This Thursday, security guards at the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia received an order from the court presidency to arrest a French journalist, Florence Hartmann. Assisted by the Dutch police, the security guards arrested Ms. Hartmann despite the attempts of onlookers and Bosnian war victims to protect her. Ms. Hartmann, a former correspondant for Le Monde, is currently locked up at the tribunal prison on the outskirts of the Hague to serve a pending seven-day sentence for a contempt of court conviction from 2009.
In this landmark analysis, expert U.S. regulatory lawyer Bruce Zagaris poses the question: ‘has the United Sates abused its dominant position in global financial markets to impose higher regulatory requirements on competing jurisdictions than on itself?'
On April 26, Zagaris will head a webinar session on this topic.
On Wednesday March 30, 2016 at 10:00 am EDT in the Simon Bolivar Hall, Bruce Zagaris will participate in the Organization of American States Permanent Council's discussion on “Unfair Practices in Financial Services” in the Hemisphere as one of three expert panelists.
Following the approval of harsh new sanctions by the U.N. Security Council, the European Union is considering taking additional measures against North Korea in a demonstration of solidarity with South Korea and Japan, two of its major trading partners. According to one EU diplomat involved in the discussion of further measures, the European Union is "...supporting [its] allies Japan and South Korea, who are directly threatened by North Korea's aggression".
As Europol reported on March 1, the Croatian police have arrested 13 suspects belonging to a Balkan Organized Crime Group that was responsible for importing large amounts of cocaine from South America to Europe by way of the Netherlands. The investigation that led to the arrests was known as Operation DANUBE.
The Spanish police raided the Madrid subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on Wednesday and arrested five of the subsidiary's directors. The bank, one of China's largest, has been accused of helping several Chinese and Spanish criminal syndicates commit financial fraud, according to Europol, the police agency of the European Union.
