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Posted: January 8th, 2010, 12:00pm MSK
Religion - On January 1, 2010, new provisions contained in the Defamation Act, 2009 of the Republic of Ireland, on prohibiting the making of blasphemous statements, came into effect. The relevant section of the new law states that...
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Posted: January 8th, 2010, 12:00pm MSK
Money laundering - On January 1, 2009, the DAILY NATION reported that Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki had signed into law The Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Bill, which was passed by the country's parliament in December. (Peter Leftie,...
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Posted: January 8th, 2010, 12:00pm MSK
Banks and financial institutions - On January 5, 2010, the Federal Administrative Court issued a judgment in which it held that the Swiss Financial Markets Supervisory Authority (Eidgenssische Finanzmarktaufsicht, FINMA)had acted unlawfully on February 18, 2009, when it ordered UBS AG,...