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33 IELR [i] (2017)

handle is hein.journals/ielr33 and id is 1 raw text is: ** - INTERNATIONAL E NF I C E M E N T REPORTER I. NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT, TRANSNAT'L ORGANIZED CRIME, AND EXTRADITION ........................1 Haiti Expels Senator-Elect Philippe to the U.S. on Drug Charges ................................................................................... 1 Mexico Extradites El Chapo to the United States ......................................................................................2 II. MONEY LAUNDERING AND BANK SECRECY ............ ...........................................................4 Western Union Agrees to Forfeit $586 Million to Settle Money Laundering and Fraud Charges................................................. 4 III. INT'L TAX ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION...................................................................................................7 European Court of Human Rights Upholds (1.1 Bn Bond of French Court Against UBS .................................................................7 IV. COUNTER-TERRORISM, EXTRADITION ALTERNATIVES, AND INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS......................8 CoE Increases Pressure on Poland, U.S. to Enforce Strasbourg Court Judgments in Cases of Al Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah... 8 UK Supreme Court Allows Victims of a British-American 'Rendition' Operation to Sue the UK Government ......................11 V . E X T R A D IT IO N ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Danish Government Arrests and Rejects Request to Release S. Korean Chung Yoo-ra...............................................................13 K osovo Form er PM A rrested in France on W ar Crim es Charges...........................................................................................................14 EU Court ofJustice Deliberates on Extradition Discrimination in Member States.........................................................................16 U.S. Appellate Court Affirms Lower Court in Denying Non Bis in Idem Argument to Extraditee............................................19 U.S. Extradites U.S. Resident to Saba on M urder and Rape Charges ................................................................................................ 20 VI. TRANSNAT'L CORRUPTION, INT'L ASSET FORFEITURE, AND JURISDICTIONAL IMMUNITIES ........ 21 Th e N ew Sapin II French A nti-corruption L aw .....................................................................................................................................21 ICJ Rules in Favor of France on Immunities for Obiang, But for E. Guinea on Inviolability of Premises ................................23 Odebrecht and Braskem Plead Guilty and Agree to Pay $3.5 Billion to 3 Countries to Resolve Corruption Charges .............25 Rolls-Royce Agrees to Global Resolution of Corruption Investigations............................................................................................ 27 VII. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS, CYBERCRIME, INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS, AND TRANSNAT'L CORRUPTION 29 Obama Announces Economic Sanctions and Other Actions against Russian Interference with Election ................................29 U.S. Congress Enacts Law to Sanction International Human Rights and Corruption Violators................................................. 31 VIII. COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCIAL ENFORCEMENT AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION..........33 EU's Swift Reaction to Berlin Terrorist Attack: European Commission Adopts New Measures Against Terrorist Financing.. 33 IX. ILLEGAL PRODUCTION AND TRAFFICKING IN ARMS AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION..........37 European Parliament and Council Have Reached Agreement on the New Firearms Directive...................................................37 X. INT'L ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT......................................................................................................40 C hin a A grees to B an Ivory T rade in 2017 ....................................................................................................................................................40 XI. U.S. MUTUAL ASSISTANCE AND EXTRADITION TREATY UPDATES........................................................... 41 X II. B IB LIO G R A PH Y ........................................................................................................................................................44 VOLUME 33 | ISSUE 1 | JANUARY 1 -JANUARY 31, 2017

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