Spotlight | South Africa
"La Belle Edith" and the Zuma Affair

South Africa
Police Stung by Scorpions

A prickled South Africa Police Service (SAPS) feels stung by a smaller sister unit named the Scorpions. South Africa's policemen [...]

France, South Africa
GILLES AUBRY

The chief superintendent of police in the Paris CID, Gilles Aubry, arrived in Johannesburg on March 27 to join the [...]

Philippe Mettoux

A senior official in the French justice ministry's criminal affairs and pardons department in Paris, Philippe Mettoux, has been named [...]

The Embarrassing Delilez Affair

The Belgian judicial authorities have yet to indicate how they are to deal with the case of Pierre Delilez, a [...]

U.S. TAKES ON TAX HAVENS

Is the United States finally getting around to declaring war on tax havens? Up to now, like many Western nations, the American administration steered clear of any direct assault on offshore financial centers but Jonathan Winer, deputy assistant secretary of [.

THE PARLIAMENT WANTS NAMES OF FREEMASONS

Senior officials of the ruling council of British Freemasonry, the United Grand Lodge of England (UGL) , face charges of [...]

IRISH POLICE THOUGHT LINKED TO MURDER

Even though the current investigation into the contract killing of Veronica Guerin, a crime journalist for Ireland's Sunday Independent newspaper [...]

TURF CLEARLY DEFINED FOR POLICE

After weeks of often ill-tempered negotiations, the three Belgian police forces -- the Judicial Police, the Gendarmerie and Community Police [...]

BELGIANS, DUTCH IN TANGLED TALE

Dutch justice minister Winnie Sorgdrager has asked her Belgian counterpart, Stefaan de Clerck, to investigate claims by Willy Van Mechelen, [...]

LEAK RUINS UNDERCOVER OPERATION

A leak to the French press in early November not only compromised an ongoing MI5 and Special Branch undercover operation [...]

MONEY LAUNDERING: UNEQUAL FIGHT

The fight against money laundering was the subject of several international meetings which took place last week in Europe. In Brussels, the Belgian interior ministry, along with Editions Politeia, organized a symposium on 15 June concerning "Property of Criminal Origin" [.

CORRUPTION, COKE & THE DEA

Dutch police and intelligence have been rocked by two major scandals that blew up recently. The first involves the country's [...]

FRENCH VS. DUTCH OVER EUROPOL

The confrontation between the French and Dutch governments over Europol headquarters seems to be heading to a climax. In a [...]

The University of Liverpool Unit for the Study of White-Collar [...]

DST TO FIGHT THE MAFIA

Along with a major rehaul in Ministry of Defense intelligence services (I.N. n. 200), France's "civilian" services are also undergoing [...]