Corrupt Foreign News Today

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Justice Department's Hunter Biden probe.

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In a statement, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen welcomed the United Kingdoms new Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regime, which "builds upon the success" of the UKs Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime. The new regime provides the UK with authority comparable to the United States Global Magnitsky program or Canadas Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, both of which target h...

freezing of assets in the EU applying to both individuals and entities, and prohibition of EU-based individuals and entities from making funds and economic resources available to perpetrators. The scope of the sanctions cover "serious" human rights violations such as genocide, crimes against humanity, torture, slavery, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detentions but there is no exhaustive catalogue. The first list of sanctioned individuals and entities is expecte...