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BY RICHARD HURST
The former British colony of Sierra Leone has been a focus of a money laundering scandal since the September 11 attacks in the US, when it was uncovered (in the New York Times) that a senior member of the al Qaeda organisation, Ibrahim Bah, had been purchasing and stockpiling diamonds mined by the country’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI
EVEN as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and some 170 countries work towards implementing a tobacco control convention, Bhutan, the remote and tiny Himalayan kingdom, has taken a step further by banning tobacco sale at all its duty-free outlets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DUTCH poultry company has created an important legal precedent forcing national authorities in the European Union (EU) to reconsider administrative decisions if they are subsequently shown to break EU law. Kühne & Heitz had gone to court to secure contested export refunds from the Netherlands Commodity Board for Poultry and Eggs.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A US judge has reduced a federal fine imposed on Martin County Coal Corp. by 90 per cent, whose waste pond leaked 306 million gallons of coal sludge into eastern Kentucky waterways in 2000. Martin County Coal Corp.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A US judge has reduced a federal fine imposed on Martin County Coal Corp. by 90 per cent, whose waste pond leaked 306 million gallons of coal sludge into eastern Kentucky waterways in 2000. Martin County Coal Corp.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union should tread warily in moves to create a European body of contract law, lest it damage the health of the continent’s cross-border trade, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has warned. Speaking at a European Commission workshop, ICC specialists advised against framing detailed regulations, arguing that existing contractual law works well, especially when international contract models are used.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) law enforcement agencies are intensifying their fight against the counterfeiting of the Euro currency, as European Central Bank (ECB) figures show an increase in seizures of forged banknotes. In the second half of 2003, 311,925 counterfeit notes were discovered in Euro and non-Euro countries, a 30 per cent increase over the first six months of 2003, when counterfeit seizures had been 59 per cent more numerous than in the previous half-year.…

BY RICHARD HURST
Nigeria is widely regarded as the country as the hub of money-laundering activities in the region, despite having a reasonably comprehensive set of anti-money laundering laws in place. Press and non-governmental organisation reports have highlighted cases where Nigerian banks have been hit by money launderers trying to conceal illicit earnings from corruption, the arms trade, narcotics and the e-mail frauds.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MAJOR changes in European Union (EU) legislation that could vitally affect the meat processing industry are in prospect this year with the main elements likely to be agreed before the summer break. The outstanding single item according to Jean-Luc Meriaux – general secretary of the European Livestock and Meat Union – is the so-called “hygiene package” of three regulations and a directive which will be considered by the European Parliament at its second (and usually final) reading in March.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIA’S parliament has passed a cyber-crime act on information technology to combat credit card fraud, which costs the country US$6 million every year. Indonesia does not have a coherent law that deals with credit card fraud cases over the Internet and credit card companies and legal authorities have been pressing for a legal framework.…