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Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline – May 2026
Jack Garden
26 May 2017
Global Laundromat and the proceeds of crime - what makes property “criminal” in extradition cases?
There has been a recent run of articles concerning ‘The Global Laundromat’ (see for example here and here). This name was given to a scheme by the US Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project to describe the laundering of billions of dollars into Europe, the US and Asia from Russia and Moldova. It is alleged that from 2010 to 2014, the wealthy elite in Russia, Moldova and the Ukraine, was moving cash derived from illegal activity from their home states abroad into offshore companies, false companies and luxury goods.
15 May 2017
Genocide – Whether there exists an obligation in the UK to extradite or prosecute in such cases
Guest blog by Emilie Pottle, barrister specialising in extradition, crime and human rights at 36 Bedford Row.
Judgement in the high-profile extradition appeal of Rwanda v Vincent Brown & Ors is expected imminently. The Rwandan Government’s appeal is likely to be its final bid to secure the extradition of five alleged genocidaires to stand trial in Rwanda. If the appeal fails the men will remain in the UK—which raises the question, must the UK authorities investigate the allegations?
27 March 2017
Prosecuting companies for crimes against humanity
On the 2nd of March, French-Swiss company LafargeHolcim issued a statement accepting that it had indirectly funded illegal armed groups in Syria in order to continue its operations there. This statement came in response to mounting pressure in the press, coupled with a criminal complaint made against them in November 2016 by French NGO Sherpa and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
8 March 2017
International Criminal Law – A month in review – February 2017
International Crime News Review for February 2017
23 February 2017
International Criminal Court asked to investigate corporate actors for crimes against humanity linked to Australia’s detention regime
Last week, in a move that attracted international attention, (see here and here also) the International Human Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School and Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) asked the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to commence an investigation into public officials, in particular Australian public officials, and corporate actors from three named companies that it claimed may have committed and be continuing to commit the crimes against humanity of unlawful imprisonment, torture, deportation, persecution and other inhumane acts. The communique alleges both direct corporate perpetration of the crimes and corporate complicity in the planning and carrying out of said crimes in continuance of Australia’s immigration policies by individuals.