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Banking Supervisors from Large Offshore Financial Centers Agree to Strengthen Cooperation in Line with Basle 1992 Resolution |
On October 7, 1996, banking supervisors from large offshore financial centers agreed to increase cooperation with their counterparts in investigating irregular behavior at banks under their control... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
World |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, International Cooperation, Financial Supervision |
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The Edinburgh Conference on Transnational & International Crime, May 15-17, 1997 |
On May 15-17, 1997, the Department of Public International Law and the Europa Institute of the Univ. of Edinburgh will sponsor a conference on the following topics: countering transnational crime;... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
World |
Human Rights, Conferences, International Crimes |
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U.S. Treasury Urges Strengthening of Financial Supervisory Enforcement Regimes in Latin America |
On October 8, 1996, Treasury Deputy Secretary Lawrence Summers, speaking to the Annual Conference on the Americas in New York, urged that strengthening and modernization of financial systems in Latin... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
United States, Latin America and South America |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, International Organizations, Financial Supervision |
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Books |
Adjective Enforcement
International Criminal Law Cases and Materials (Jordan J. Paust, Cherif Bassiouni, Sharon Williams, Michael Scharf, Jimmy Gurale, and Bruce Zagaris, eds., Durham, N.C.:... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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EU Council Issues Foreign Assistance Regulation on Anti-Drug Cooperation |
On September 6, 1996, the European Union Commission issued an amended proposal for "North-South Cooperation in the Campaign against Drugs and Drug Addiction ... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
Europe |
International Organizations, Drugs & Trafficking, Treaties, International Cooperation |
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Book Reviews |
Christopher L. Blakesley, 90 A.J.I.L. 346 (1996), (reviewing Joseph J. Lambert, Terrorism and Hostages in International Law: A Commentary on the Hostages Convention (1979))...[more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
World |
Book Review |
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International Undercover Operations in Three Countries Penetrate Nigerian Heroin Ring |
On October 11, 1996, U.S. law enforcement officials announced the arrests of 34 suspects in three countries that have disrupted a major drug-trafficking group led primarily by Nigerian women who... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
United States, Nigeria |
Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime |
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Documents |
i. Intellectual Property
Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Framework Agreement on Intellectual Property Cooperation and Framework Agreement on Services, 35 I.L.M. 1072 (July 1996)... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
World |
Bibliography |
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Brazil Government Will Propose Laws and Establish Office to Prevent Tax Evasion Through Improper Transfer Pricing |
In August 1996, the Brazilian Government announced plans to enact legislation to prevent tax evasion through improper transfer pricing and to open an office in its tax department to monitor and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
Brazil |
Taxation, Tax Crimes |
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U.S. Senate Passes Kazak Treaty |
On September 28, 1996, the U.S. Senate in executive session passed the income tax treaty between the U.S. and Kazakstan by unanimous consent ... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
United States, Kazakhstan |
Taxation, Treaties |
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New Swiss-U.S. Tax Accord Reached and Increases Tax Enforcement |
On September 2, 1996, after seventeen years of difficult negotiations, the United States and Swiss Governments signed a new, proposed bilateral income tax treaty, protocol, and memorandum of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
11 |
1996-11-01 |
United States, Switzerland |
Taxation, Treaties, Tax Crimes |
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Hearings Reveals Multiagency U.S. Effort to Combat Nigerian Crime |
On September 11, 1996, U.S. executive branch officials revealed multi-agency efforts and international cooperation to expose, prevent, and prosecute Nigerian white collar and organized crime,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
10 |
1996-10-01 |
United States, Nigeria |
Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime, Fraud, White Collar Crime, International Cooperation |
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Italian High Court Will Rule on Priebke Case |
On October 15, 1996, the high court is scheduled to rule on the verdict of a Rome military tribunal that freed the former SS captain Erich Priebke due to Italian statute of limitations despite... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
10 |
1996-10-01 |
Italy |
Law of War, Murder, War Crimes, International Courts |
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Justice in Cataclysm: Criminal Tribunals in the Wake of Mass Violence |
The conference focused on several options to deal with mass violence in society. These options are not restricted only to criminal tribunals, but also embrace other solutions(e.g., truth commissions... |
Göran Sluiter |
12 |
10 |
1996-10-01 |
World |
Human Rights, Law of War, International Courts, Conferences |
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Scheffer Rates Prospects for the Establishment of an International Permanent Criminal Tribunal Are Positive |
On September 19, 1996, David J. Scheffer, Senior Advisor and Counsel to Ambassador Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, spoke about the growing prospect for the establishment of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
10 |
1996-10-01 |
World, United States |
International Organizations, International Courts |
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Canon Law Scholar Convicted of Theft of Rare Manuscripts |
On August 13, 1996, Anthony Melnikas, a retired art history professor from Ohio State, pleaded guilty to charges against him for smuggling and attempted sale of two 14th-century illuminated leaves... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
10 |
1996-10-01 |
United States |
Theft, Cultural Property |
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U.S. Government-Private Sector Group Recovers 16 Stolen Vehicles from Thailand |
During the first week of September 1996, after a yearlong effort by a team of public and private sector groups, Thailand returned 16 vehicles that had been stolen in Southern California and shipped... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
10 |
1996-10-01 |
United States, Thailand |
Theft, Vehicles |
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The First Tango? The OAS Adopts Plan of Action on Hemispheric Cooperation to Prevent, Combat, and Eliminate Terrorism |
1. Introduction -- The Nature of the Threat
Terrorism can be defined as the substate application of violence or threatened violence intended to sow panic in a society, to weaken or even overthrow... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
10 |
1996-10-01 |
North America, Latin America and South America, Caribbean |
International Organizations, Terrorism, International Cooperation |
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The Edinburgh Conference on Transnational & International Crime, May 15-17, 1997 |
On May 15-17, 1997, the Department of Public International Law and the Europa Institute of the Univ. of Edinburgh will sponsor a conference on the following topics: countering transnational crime;... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
10 |
1996-10-01 |
World |
Human Rights, Conferences, International Crimes |
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U.S. Will Soon Issue Draft Rules Requiring Reports on Foreign Bank Drafts |
On September 5, 1996, at a hearing before the House Banking General Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, witnesses discussed steps that will help combat Mexican drug money laundering in the U.S... |
Bruce Zagaris |
12 |
10 |
1996-10-01 |
United States |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Drugs & Trafficking, Financial Supervision |