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...proceedings began with a surprise application by defense attorney Abbas Kazmi, appointed the previous day. After conferring for about five minutes with his client, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the only surviving suspect in the attacks, Kazmi told the judge, M.L. Tahiliani, that Qasab claims to be a minor and requests that his case be heard in juvenile court. The courtroom, filled with reporters and police officials, was stunned. Would this trial be suspended before it even began? (Read about the opening day in court...
...hasn't finished the whole thing.) Qasab does not speak English, but there is no Urdu translator to explain the proceedings to him, and his request for an Urdu version of the charge sheet was denied. Most Indian courts leave it to the defense attorney to explain to their client what's happening...
...landed on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of "noncooperative" countries. That year Guatemala finally criminalized money laundering, setting prison sentences of up to 20 years and requiring banks and other financial intermediaries to report suspicious activity and implement "know your client" policies. The law created a special unit within the banking superintendence, which has the authority to obtain information related to any business transaction potentially involving laundering...
...tangential, but it appears that there is a pattern of the prosecution going for a judge that might go their way. If you're Cellini, do you really want to be tried with Blagojevich?" Indeed, Dan Webb, a former U.S. Attorney and Cellini's lawyer, has stated that his client will seek a separation of the cases...
Mohamed's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, says that to evaluate his client's claims - which could expand the investigation to include similar allegations by fellow Gitmo alumni - police will need access to records and personnel from the British intelligence community as well as from ministries with oversight of the security services and perhaps even to the pinnacles of decision-making in Westminster - and Washington. "It would be very surprising if the decision [on Mohamed] was not taken at a high level. The question is how high," says Stafford Smith, who is also the director of the legal charity Reprieve. During...