Word: crimeeds
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...member of the country's legislature, D'Aubuisson cannot be prosecuted. A report by Salvadoran Attorney General Roberto Giron Flores has concluded, however, that Garay's testimony is sufficient to label the politician the "intellectual author" of the crime. Last week El Salvador's Justice Ministry began taking formal steps to convince the National Assembly that it should strip D'Aubuisson of his immunity so that he can be charged. Duarte's Christian Democratic Party has a clear majority in the legislature, 33 seats, compared with the 13 of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Duarte, who defeated...
...case, D'Aubuisson is unlikely to be convicted -- even if the legislature strips him of his immunity. Under Salvadoran law, the same witness cannot testify against two people charged with the same crime. Garay's evidence can therefore be used only against Saravia. If D'Aubuisson goes to trial, he will face judges on the country's appeals court, which includes many ardent ARENA supporters...
...confusing answer: sometimes yes and sometimes no. Switzerland has always been willing to help the U.S. track down criminals who used Swiss accounts to stash their loot. But the two countries do not always agree on what constitutes a crime. In the Iran-contra case, there was no problem: North and his associates are accused of fraud, which is clearly a crime in Switzerland. Tax evasion, though, is not against Swiss law. An American who underreports his income can still hide the extra money from the Internal Revenue Service by putting it in a Swiss account...
Over the years, however, the Swiss have gradually become more flexible about the conditions under which they will cooperate with investigations. In 1977 Switzerland agreed in a treaty with the U.S. to give special help in cases involving organized crime. In practice, this has meant that the Swiss cooperate in tax-evasion cases if the suspect can be shown to have ties to the mob. Last month the U.S. and Switzerland signed a "memorandum of understanding" recognizing that drug traffickers and money launderers in some cases meet the definition of mobsters and are thus covered by the treaty...
...insider traders, some of whom have sent their ill-gotten gains to Zurich. In 1982 Switzerland signed a special accord with the U.S. in which it agreed to cooperate in the investigation of these stock-swindle cases, and next year the Swiss parliament intends to make insider trading a crime...