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12 IELR [i] (1996)

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Volume 12, Issue 1, january 1996


1.    MONEY LAUNDERING AND BANK  SECRECY     ............................1
      A.    Germany Proposes Tougher Anti-Laundering  Laws...............1
      B.    Gold Smuggling  in Guyana Used to Launder Money..............1
      C.    Swiss Arrest Salinas Family Member  on Financial Crime Charge.....3
      D.    Money Laundering and the French  Legislation..................5
      E.    Hemispheric Ministers Agree on Principles to Combat Money Laundering
            . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2
      F     Money Laundering  (Proceeds of crime) Act 1995.  ................14
II.   ILLICIT NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING  .....    ...............  ....... 14
      A.    OAS Anti-Drug Group Agrees to  Strengthen National Drug Control
            Commissions and Convene Experts  Group on Anti-Laundering........14
      B.    Clinton Administration Touts Successes and Declaims Underfunding by
            Congress of U.S.  International Narcotics Policy..............   16
III.        INTERNATIONAL TAXATION      ............................... 19
      A.    Bahamas Decides to Avoid  Integration into Western Hemisphere Free
            Trade Association to Protect Secrecy  and Avoid Tax Cooperation..19
      B.    IRS Commissioner Announces New International Enforcement Initiatives
            ....................................................20
      C.    Japan Claims Withholding Tax Evasion  on Foreign Payments Soars..21
IV.   EXTRAD IT ION ..........................................................22
      A.    Barbados Appellate Court Rejects Appeal  of Extradition Order as
            Untimely.     ..............................................22
      B.    U.S. Court  in Florida Upholds Extradition Statute............22
      C.    Relator Blocks French Extradition  Request to England for Testimony
            Only      .................................................23
      D.    Germany Extradites Leeson to Singapore in Bar ings Case and Plea Is Made
            ....................................................24
      E.    GAO Report Shows U.S. Agencies Are  Improving Coordination and ....
            Cooperation  in Apprehending Fugitives................. .....24
      F.    Cali Cartel Associates Win and  Lose in Specialty Arguments on
            Luxembourg Extradition to the  U.S.....   ....................27
V.    MUTUAL ASSISTANCE  IN CRIMINAL MATTERS AND ASSET FORFEITURE ............
AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ........................          ......30
      A.    U.S. Court Holds Unconstitutional  Asset Freeze under Swiss-US MLAT
            ....................................................30
VI.   ENFORCEMENT OF  INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND WAR

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