"Criminal prosecution" refers to the process of formally accusing someone of committing a crime and bringing them to court to determine their guilt or innocence. It involves legal proceedings, evidence collection, and potentially leading to punishment if the accused is found guilty.
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It would reduce the requirements for suspicious activity reports and grant immunity from
federal criminal prosecution or investigation simply for providing financial services to a legal marijuana - related business.
However, lawyers have warned that even now citizens risk
criminal prosecution if they fail to report gains from dealings with cryptocurrencies.
We have a very small number of staff, but they understand that the unauthorized distribution of client's files will result in severe
criminal prosecution under existing Thai law.
It would raise the age for victims to
seek criminal prosecution until they are 28 and give them civil recourse until they are 50.
But, if you state under oath that you engaged in this conduct, you make yourself vulnerable to
criminal prosecution based upon that testimony under oath.
It would imply that they have full power over whether I am subjected to
criminal prosecution because they claim they have the power to «investigate» anything I've done and report it.
Indeed, particularly with respect to economic offences, which by their very nature and complexity require extensive investigations, the time - limit will often hamper an
effective criminal prosecution.
The parliament in that country has approved a new law that would
allow criminal prosecution for blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites.
Depending on the sanctions set out in the abstract for the violation under investigation, the limitation period relating to
criminal prosecution ranges from two to 15 years.
With a background
in criminal prosecution, I have the know - how and insight to stand - up for your constitutional rights.
In more extreme situations, taxpayers could be subject to
criminal prosecution for failing to properly report the income tax consequences of virtual currency transactions.
The authors specifically criticize some politicians for what the letter calls «McCarthy - like threats of
criminal prosecution against our colleagues on the basis of innuendo and guilt by association.»
Liberty argues new measures should be introduced to make it easier for police and prosecutors to collect sufficient evidence to
bring criminal prosecutions against terror suspects.
The petition also sought to disqualify Schneiderman's office from investigating Abelove due to a conflict of interest: Paul Clyne, an assistant attorney general, is a potential witness in the broader case — including any
potential criminal prosecution of Abelove — because Clyne allegedly told the district attorney's office on the morning after the shooting that his office would not intervene in the investigation.
The agencies managed to avoid
criminal prosecution by noting that the small print of their contracts said that they were only providing an «opinion,» not a realistic analysis for which they could be expected to take any honest professional responsibility!
Since those companies were located outside the United States, the US
used criminal prosecutions of their executives, who were then arrested as they happened to set foot in the country, often in transit at US airports.
1) make sure that the «access to and the subsequent use of the retained data [are] strictly restricted to the purpose of preventing and detecting precisely defined serious offences or of
conducting criminal prosecutions relating thereto» (§ 229);
Finally,
criminal prosecution authorities are responsible for criminal proceedings whenever a criminal offence under the Swiss Criminal Code of 21 December 1937 (SCC) has been committed or if other acts or ordinances provide for their jurisdiction.
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