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.

Today the New York Times published an article about the challenges in recovering stolen assets in the U.S. and abroad under the Department of Justice's Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.

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On February 11, Secretary Jeh Johnson delivered his final State of Homeland Security address, entitled “DHS: Progress in 2015, Goals for 2016" at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

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The Case Western Reserve University School of Law is introducing an Executive Master of Arts in Financial Integrity (MAFI) program, which will begin in the fall of 2016.  The program was created in response to demands by financial institutions and government agencies for superior compliance experts in the areas of countering money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and the evasion of financial sanctions.

On February 3, Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY-12) and Peter King (R-NY-2) reintroduced their legislation in the House of Representatives to make it obligatory for a corporation to disclose its beneficial owner.  This action follows the activist organization Global Witness' publication last week of a groundbreaking investigation that demonstrated that disclosure laws in the United States are easily manipulated and exploited.