Those alternative investments have now had time to go sour in big numbers, state and federal securities regulators say, and are making up a majority of complaints and prosecutions.
A women's organisation has also lodged a police complaint demanding prosecution of the lawyers, who represent four men who are on death row after being convicted of the fatal gang-rape of a student in Delhi in 2012.
And similar to Lula, Aquino's major allies (as well as himself) are grappling with impeachment complaints and prosecution.
"The prosecution complaint against the bank would seek punishment under tax laws," a source said.
J. William Leonard, who directed the Information Security Oversight Office during the George W. Bush administration, filed a formal complaint about the prosecution with the Justice Department and the National Security Agency, and urged punishment of officials who needlessly classify documents that contain no actual secrets.
A telephone hot line to receive complaints is scheduled to start at the end of the month, along with new federal and state commissions to monitor complaints and oversee prosecutions.
The most immediate threat is the move by Burundi, South Africa and the Gambia, which in the last quarter of 2016 have all served notice of intention to withdraw, citing complaints that ICC prosecutions focus excessively on the African continent.
In recent months, three African countries who were all full members of the ICC – South Africa, Burundi and Gambia – have signalled their intention to pull out, following complaints that ICC prosecutions focused excessively on the African continent.
The United Nations Committee Against Torture said today that while Israel had made progress in ending some practices that amounted to torture, it should install "effective complaint, investigative and prosecution mechanisms" to handle continuing protests.
"We served notices to them [Mr Raju's wife Nandini and her sons], and filed a prosecution complaint in the court in 2011… Though they had sufficient means to pay the tax, they deliberately did not pay," the report quotes A Ramakrishna Reddy, public prosecutor for the income-tax department, as saying.
