Kapoor, who currently languishes in police custody in India, presided over a vast criminal operation whose full scope authorities are still trying to understand.
The inquiry, unusual for its multistate scope, involves criminal investigators from the Environmental Protection Agency and the F.B.I. and prosecutors from the Justice Department's environmental crimes section.
Though Kremlin officials, including Mr. Putin, have acknowledged that Gazprom was shortchanged and sometimes acted against its own interest, officials say Russian law offers little or no scope for criminal prosecutions.
In Brazil, judges have wide latitude to define both the direction and scope of criminal inquiries, and Judge Moro's willingness to pursue even the eminent and influential has made him a folk hero.
While Mr. Hernández-Gil said that "some fraud and abuses" might have occurred in providing state legal aid, he argued that the government's ballooning bill mostly reflected a rise of 80 percent over the past decade in the state legal aid workload, because of immigration and because the scope of criminal law was widened to include relatively common incidents like alcohol-induced traffic violations.
It could be troubling if the government uses Enron to increase the scope of criminal liability for executives, Podgor said.
But it is for Parliament, not the courts to expand the scope of criminal liability for this offence".
But it is for parliament, not the courts to expand the scope of criminal liability for this offense".
What is equally distressing is the scope of criminal activity to which these new digital surveillance techniques may be applied.
About a month beforehand, the Rastrojos' national commanders had made a deal with a group called the Urabeños the only other criminal organization of national scope.
