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 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.
John Yates is a self-employed commercial fisherman plying the Gulf of Mexico from his home port on Florida’s southwest coast. His primary catch of red grouper is subject to fish size limitations and monitored by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers deputized by the National Marine Fisheries Services to enforce federal and state fishing laws.
The Criminal Law and Counter-Terrorism Divisions of the Council of Europe, in co-operation with the City Hall and the University of Malaga, organized an International Conference on Terrorism and Organized Crime. It was held in Malaga, Spain, on September 21 – 22, 2017.
On October 17, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that federal grand juries in the Southern District of Mississippi and the District of North Dakota returned indictments, unsealed on October 16, 2017, against two Chinese nationals and their Northern American based traffickers and distributors for separate conspiracies to distribute large quantities of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues and other opiate substances in the United States. The DOJ has made the defendants the first manufacturers and distributors of fentanyl and other opiate substances to be designated as Consolidated Priority Organization Targets (CPOTs). CPOT designations are those who have “command and control” elements of the most prolific international drug trafficking and money laundering organizations.
On September 27, 2017, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, California returned an indictment, charging that the former head of Santa Monica-based Service Mesh, Inc. paid bribes to former IT executives at Commonwealth Bank of Australia in order to approve millions of dollars in contracts that inflated ServiceMesh revenues and fraudulently caused Computer Sciences Corporation (CDC) to pay a nearly $100 million incentive bonus as part of CSC’s acquisition of the cloud software company.
At its 34th sitting held on October 12, 2017, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted Resolution 2190 (2017) on prosecuting and punishing crimes committed by Daesh. The debate and resolution were based on a Report prepared by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.
On October 12, 2017, the Regulation establishing the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) was adopted by those Member States which are part of the EPPO “enhanced cooperation.” The EPPO will be in charge of investigating, prosecuting and bringing to justice the perpetrators of offences against the Union's financial interests. It will bring together European and national law-enforcement efforts to counter EU fraud.
