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BY PHILIP FINE

AT LEAST no one in today’s America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known as the original saloon smasher, she would burst into bars and cause as much damage as she could to drinking establishments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Internet crime treaty, insisting that 45 countries criminalise computer-based fraud, has come into force following its ratification by Lithuania, the fifth country to do so. The Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Convention covers most European countries, including Russia and other former Soviet republics.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ITALIAN law protecting large businesses in financial difficulties from closure has been deemed illegal under European Union (EU) state aid rules, with the European Commission ordering the repayment of any government grants authorised under its terms. The ruling could expose insurance companies to significant commercial risk, given that the law – “urgent measures in favour of employment” – applies to companies with more than 1,000 employees under a specific Italian insolvency proceeding (amministrazione straordinaria).…

BY MONICA DOBIE, ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
SENDING employees abroad or setting up overseas branches always take some preparation and maybe the most important job is taking care of workers’ health needs. Not only must local employment laws be followed, but companies must ensure that they can manage the alien health risks faced abroad.…

Keith Nuthall
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) policies towards borrower countries will henceforth be influenced by their capacity to implement Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations on fighting money laundering. IMF directors have agreed these assessments “do not contravene the prohibition of the Fund to exercise law enforcement powers”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MANY professions are engaged in the war against money laundering but it seems increasingly plain that customs officers are at the very forefront of the campaign. Most crime (with some forms of terrorism a conspicuous exception) is committed mainly for financial profit and that profit has to be re-cycled if the criminals are to gain anything at all from it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MONACO is all about money. A glamorous speck of high-rises looming above the French Riviera, it is famous for wealthy glamour, tax exiles, racing-cars and gambling. Given this cocktail, it is hardly surprising that this, Europe’s second smallest country by geography, has attracted allegations that it has been the site of money laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is lending Peru US$12 million to help it reform its judicial system, making it more efficient and better able to serve poor and isolated communities across the country. The bank’s ‘justice services improvement’ project also aims to help the Peruvian government improve the operation of development of the country’s national judicial council, the judicial academy and its ministry of justice.…

BY PHILIP FINE

GAP has offered to settle out-of-court a dispute with a group of California employees who opposed paying for company clothing worn on the job, said a lawyer representing them. Their lawsuit alleged Gap had violated state law requiring companies to pay for workers’ uniforms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERPOL is to stage an international meeting of police and experts to discuss ways of fighting the growing international traffic in illegal sports performance-enhancing drugs. The agency is particularly keen to collate more information about the problem for its databases, which can be accessed by police forces worldwide.…