The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 24: “Elephants and the Mafia: Combatting Criminal Wildlife Trafficking”
Recent developments in the European Union (EU) as well as political demands indicate that the criminal prosecution of sanctions violations in the EU will be further intensified and possibly even centralized:...more
Jüngere Entwicklungen in der Europäischen Union („EU“) sowie politische Forderungen deuten darauf hin, dass die strafrechtliche Verfolgung von Sanktionsverstößen in der EU weiter intensiviert und gegebenenfalls sogar...more
The Council of the European Union has called on Member States and the European Commission to do more to tackle serious and organised crime and make financial investigations a top priority in the fight against it....more
Last week the UK government announced plans to launch a new national economic crime centre (NECC), which promises to tackle ‘the most serious cases of economic crime’. This is a grand promise. Originally published in The...more
In an unusual four-member majority opinion in RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Community, the U.S. Supreme Court settled a host of controversial questions about the extraterritorial scope of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt...more