But Nauru police have now closed their investigation recommending the case be closed and no prosecution pursued "due to insufficient evidence found to prove alleged offence or rape".
He was not charged on copyright offences, but was convicted on two counts of conspiracy to facilitate copyright infringement following a private prosecution pursued by the anti-piracy lobby group Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT).
This extreme concentration raises, in turn, doubts about whether America's regulators, or those of any other country, could afford a repeat of Andersen's prosecution, pursuing one of the surviving firms to the point of extinction if they uncover another big scandal.So the industry's consolidation would seem to demand, at the least, a much more robust set of regulations governing its behaviour.
Such measures, for instance, would require that countries not only develop robust mechanisms to prosecute those who abuse children internally but also reach agreements with other countries to standardise prosecution, pursue perpetrators across borders, and carry out public advocacy in both home and recipient countries.
Tory MP Michael Ellis said: "Do you accept that it is not in the administration of effective justice that there be a seven-year delay before prosecutions are pursued, if prosecutions are going to be pursued...It's a given isn't it?" Mr Graham replied: "Of course it's a given".
Britain and France will also work jointly to ensure networks are dismantled and prosecutions are pursued, sources said.
The inspector general's office said that it referred the evidence to the Justice Department's environmental crimes section but that ultimately no prosecutions were pursued.
Among the many controversial prosecutions he pursued, several resulted in death sentences for hundreds of alleged supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Companies will require a period of transition whereby no prosecutions are pursued whilst they change their practices from "polluter pays" to "polluter doesn't pollute".
The prosecutions were pursued privately by the council under Section 178 of the Town and Country Planning Act in which it as an "offence to wilfully obstruct" a local planning authority taking enforcement action.
