“Using Foreign Computer Evidence Against An Accused Hacker” explained that U.S. prosecutors accessed a Latvian computer server and other foreign computer evidence, where an identity thief was accused of storing stolen U.S. credit card information across international borders. “Money Laundering, Marital Assets & Divorce” outlined the different fact pattern of a U.S. divorcing spouse who had first hidden undeclared revenue in a Swiss bank and next “washed” it through a bank in Germany.
Private sector litigants aggrieved by such asset concealment schemes might elicit evidence from offshore banks or other necessary foreign witnesses through letters rogatory, as described by “A Primer For Gathering Financial Intelligence“. Governmental authorities can often additionally pursue Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty relief to help them elicit financial evidence from foreign witnesses.
Besides using Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties, governmental authorities might obtain foreign financial evidence through the methods mentioned at a March 2007 “USA Bulletin” article:
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“Obtaining Foreign Evidence Outside of The Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty Process”, is published by the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.
Copyright 2010 Fred L. Abrams