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Daily Press Briefing for May 17 -- Transcript
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Dept. of State: International Information Programs: Publications: Language of Trade
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Austria

Privatization: In the ongoing privatization of public enterprises, foreign and domestic investors receive equal treatment, in principle. In line with its privatization initiative, the previous government sold 100% of its shares in the Postal Savings Bank, the Dorotheum Auction House and Bank, and the Print Media printing concern. It also divested its remaining 41.1% share of the Austrian Tobacco Company, a 17.4% stake in the Vienna airport company, and a majority of shares in Telekom Austria (TA). In 2003, the second Schuessel government sold its 34.7% stake in Voest-Alpine (VA) steel, a leading European steel producer, and its 25% shareholding in Boehler Uddeholm, an important tool and specialty steel manufacturer. In December 2004, the government sold another 17% in TA to national and international institutional investors. In January 2005, the government sold a 14.7% share in VA Tech, a metallurgy, power generation and infrastructure conglomerate, to Siemens. Siemens already held a 1 ... [Read More]

Department of State Washington File: Text: Justice Department Targets Online Fraud, Attorney General Says

-- In Los Angeles, the CEO of a communications company and five other individuals were charged yesterday for allegedly using "denial of service" attacks against their online competitors in order to reap commercial advantage. According to the charges filed yesterday, the CEO and a business partner allegedly hired and used computer hackers in Arizona, Louisiana, Ohio, and the United Kingdom to attack the websites of multiple competitors. The hackers' tactics allegedly included targeting the victims' websites and an Internet service provider. These attacks reportedly cost the competitors more than $2 million in lost revenue and associated costs. In addition to disrupting the Internet service provider, the attack also disrupted the websites of the United States Department of Homeland Security and Internet retailer Amazon.com. ... [Read More]

Moldova

With foreign assistance, several NGOs worked to combat trafficking through information campaigns, repatriation assistance, temporary housing and medical care for victims, and job training. The NGO Save the Children worked with trafficking victims, particularly repatriated girls. Local NGOs operated public school programs to educate young women about the dangers of prostitution. In November, a number of NGOs and international organizations sponsored a conference on combating sex trafficking that drew participants from the National Committee on Anti-Trafficking, the Supreme Court, anti-trafficking prosecutors, police, and regional anti-trafficking committees. In May, the Center for Prevention of Trafficking in Women launched a legal assistance project to represent victims in civil and criminal cases, and the local branch of the NGO La Strada established a toll-free nationwide hotline. During the year, the IOM office in Chisinau began to receive funds from a foreign source which it used f ... [Read More]

M) Money Laundering and Financial Crimes

The following are summaries of the most significant priority issues:Refocus Efforts of High Intensity Financial Crime Areas (HIFCAs). HIFCAs are special, high-risk areas or sectors where law enforcement will concentrate its resources and energy to combat money laundering. The 2001 Strategy mandated that the HIFCA task forces become operational and conduct investigations designed to result in indictments, convictions, and seizures, rather than focus primarily on intelligence gathering. Each of the six HIFCA Task Forces is now actively working cases. HIFCA Task Forces are composed of, and draw upon, all relevant federal, state, and local agencies. The Departments of Treasury and Justice jointly supervise the HIFCA Task Forces, and the 2001 Strategy primarily tasks the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) and Justice’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section to develop an advanced money laundering training program to enhance the HIFCA Task Forces’ abili ... [Read More]

Moldova

b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and AssociationThe Constitution provides for freedom of assembly, and the Government generally respected this right in practice. Mayors' offices issue permits for demonstrations and may consult the national government if a demonstration is likely to be extremely large; permits were issued routinely and without bias. From January 9 to April 29, the opposition PPCD organized unauthorized protests against certain policies of the Communist authorities, such as measures to make Russian a second official language, extension of the teaching of Russian language in schools, and changing the history curriculum in schools from the current "History of the Romanians" course to a "History of Moldova" course. Protesters, who called for the resignation of the Communist party leadership, numbered at various times between several hundred and an estimated 30,000 supporters, though the opposition-contro ... [Read More]