Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska will face a London civil trial over a disputed stake in his company United Company RusAl, after losing his bid last month to block former business partner Michael Cherney’s move to hold the trial in the UK.
A face-off that had pitted Swiss banking secrecy laws against the US government’s desire to tax the income hidden by thousands of wealthy Americans in Switzerland’s largest bank came to an end last week, when the bank and the US government agreed to an out-of-court settlement that still remains more or less secret.
A Thai court has ruled against Viktor Bout’s extradition to the U.S. on terrorismrelated charges stemming from his arrest by undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officials in a sting operation at a Bangkok hotel in March of 2008.
Illegal drugs are still the top business for organized crime groups in Canada, according to a Canadian law enforcement report out this month.
Two US federal agencies signed cooperation agreements last week to share information on drug trafficking and organized crime between one agency that focuses on drugs and organized crime, and another that focuses on intelligence on international organized crime.
Serbian officials have investigated more than €100 million in criminal assets and put them in procedure for either temporary or permanent seizure in the five months since adopting an asset forfeiture program.
A Moscow court has released a man suspected of being an organized crime boss and who is wanted in the United States, 18 months after he was arrested for alleged tax evasion.
In the latest in a string of reports issued on Romania and Bulgaria since they became European Union members in January 2007, the EU’s executive arm ruled that Romania and Bulgaria are still beset by organized crime, fraud and corruption.
A Russian police official who was researching crime for a US university was arrested last month for alleged abuse of office, reported the Washington Post Thursday.
A former advisor to Milo Ðukanović has told a Podgorica daily that the Montenegrin prime minister oversaw an international “tobacco cartel” and ordered the killing of Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanić.