Articles

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Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers Agree on Broad Cooperation On May 28-29, 1998, the Council of the European Council held a meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs, in which progress was made on a wide range of international criminal cooperation matters... [... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 Europe Immigration, Terrorism, Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime, Teaching, Research, Adjective Assistance, International Cooperation
Italian Criminal Trial for Italian National Accused of Murdering American Is Conducted Mainly in the U.S. But Under Italian Law A trial has been held in Miami that shows the unique Italian-American cooperation in international criminal matters: an Italian prosecutor, judge, and jury were conducting a trial of an Italian... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States, Italy Murder, Teaching, Research, Adjective Assistance, International Cooperation
U.S. Congress Supports Early Ratification and Implementation of OECD Anti-Corruption Treaty On June 23, 1998, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted out the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Convention to Combat Transnational Corruption (hereafter the OECD... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States, OECD Corruption, Treaties
Sting Operation Breaks Endangered Species Smuggling from Mexico to U.S. On May 30, 1998, the United States Customs Service announced that a threeyear undercover operation in the U.S. and several other countries had broken a smuggling ring for endangered species from... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States, Mexico Environment, Law Enforcement, Wildlife Smuggle
European Parliament Supports Joint Action by EU Members on Enforcement Cooperation Against Credit Card Fraud On May 15, 1998, the European Parliament deputies voted to support joint action by European Union members on exchanging information to combat credit card fraud and other payment card fraud... [more] Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 Europe International Organizations, Fraud, International Cooperation, Law Enforcement
Law of War and Victims Compensation In the wake of the U.S. Government’s report on the role of neutrals in the Holocaust during World War II, the settlement of existing lawsuits and start of new ones continue... [more] Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States, Germany, Switzerland Law of War, Holocaust, Victims Compensation
OAS Stregnthens Anti-Money Laundering Efforts On May 12-14, 1998, the Organization of American States (OAS) Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) met and agreed to strengthen anti-money laundering enforcement efforts... [more] Bruce Zagaris 14 7 1998-07-01 North America, Latin America and South America Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Drugs & Trafficking
Neutrals Give Mixed Reaction to U.S. Call to Contribute to Holocaust Victims 1. U.S. Report On June 2, 1998, the U.S. in a supplemental report on the role of neutrals in the Holocaust urged five neutral countries to continue their accountability and make financial... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States, Norway Law of War, Holocaust
U.S. and Mexico Duel Over Money Laundering Case On May 18, 1998, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged three Mexican banks and twenty-six Mexican bankers with laundering millions of dollars in drug profits. According to an announcement by... Bruce Zagaris 14 7 1998-07-01 United States, Mexico Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Drugs & Trafficking
Yugoslav Tribunal On June 15, 1998, French and German units of the NATO-led peace-keeping force in Foca, southeastern Bosnia, arrested Milorad Krnojelac, 57, a former Serbian prison camp commander who allegedly... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 France, Germany, Bosnia Law of War, War Crimes, Torture, International Courts
Panama Banking Regime Undergoes Reforms in Supervision In the thirty years since the enactment of Cabinet Decree 238 of 1970 as the Banking Law of Panama, the Panamanian banking system has transformed itself from a hub of brass-plate banking companies... Alvaro Aguilar-Alf 14 8 1998-07-01 Panama Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, International Banking Supervision
Rome Conference for Permanent International Criminal Court Opens On June 15, 1998, the Diplomatic Conference on a convention to establish a Permanent International Criminal Court opened with a rapid, no-debate adoption of its Rules of Procedure, including the... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 World International Courts, Treaties
Swiss Indict 3 Swiss Citizens with Bhutto Links for Money Laundering On June 2, 1998, Daniel Devaud, a Swiss magistrate in Geneva, announced the indictment of three Swiss citizens linked to the former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, for money laundering... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 Switzerland Money Laundering, Corruption, Bank Secrecy
EU Concludes “Pre-Accession Pact on Organized Crime” with 11 Applicants On May 29, 1998, the European Union Justice and Home Affairs ministers and their eleven colleagues from the countries applying for EU membership (the ten Central and Eastern European countries and... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 Europe International Organizations, Organized Crime
U.N. Drug Summit Adopts Global Strategy At a three-day special session of the United Nations General Assembly, June 8-10, 1998, attended by presidents, prime ministers, and senior ministers from 150 countries, a global strategy was adopted... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 World United Nations, Drugs & Trafficking
U.S. Announces Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime On May 12, 1998, on the eve of his departure for the G-8 Economic Summit in Birmingham, England, where transnational organized crime was one of the main subjects, U.S. President Clinton announced an... Bruce Zagaris 14 8 1998-07-01 United States Organized Crime, International Cooperation
New Jersey Governor and U.S. Congress Prioritize Extradition of U.S. Fugitives in Cuba At an April 30, 1998 news conference at the U.S. Capitol, a group of representatives in the U.S. Congress and Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman demanded the extradition of Joanne... Bruce Zagaris 14 5 1998-06-01 United States Extradition
IMF Anti-Corruption Rules On April 21, 1998, Christian Walser, Legal Adviser For Procurement, World Bank, discussed the "New World Bank Rules to Fight Fraud and Corruption in World Bank Financed Contracts."  Bruce Zagaris 14 5 1998-06-01 World Corruption
U.S. Court Holds Dominican Republic National Extraditable on RICO Charges On November 18, 1997, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion to dismiss the indictment against defendant Francisco Medina for... Bruce Zagaris 14 5 1998-06-01 Dominican Republic Extradition
Venezuela Presses Four Countries to Extradite Fifty Fugitive Bankers According to a report from the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, the Venezuelan Government has requested Britain, Israel, Spain, and the United States to extradite fifty bankers for a 1994 banking... Bruce Zagaris 14 5 1998-06-01 Venezuela Extradition

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