<P> Some scholars and politicians like Robert A. Taft, at the time U.S. Senator from Ohio, asserted that the Nuremberg Trials following World War II were based on ex post facto law, because the Allies did not negotiate the London Charter, defining crimes against humanity and creating the International Military Tribunal, until well after the acts charged . Others, including the International Military Tribunal, argued that the London Charter merely restated and provided jurisdiction to prosecute offenses that were already made unlawful by the Kellogg - Briand Pact, the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the various Hague Conventions . </P> <P> The problem of ex post facto law was also relevant in the 1990s as there was a discussion about the trials against East German soldiers who killed fugitives on the Inner - German border (Mauerschützen - Prozesse - Wall - shooters' / - guards' trials). German courts in these cases recurred to the Radbruch formula . </P> <P> In 2010, the parliament established a 98% punitive tax on any income over two million forints received either as a retirement package or as severance pay in the previous five years in the government sector . </P> <P> In India, without using the expression "ex post facto law", the underlying principle has been adopted in the article 20 (1) of the Indian Constitution in the following words: </P>

Who has the power to pass an ex post facto law