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INTERPOL Red Notice Abuse: Which Member Countries are the Primary Offenders? During the past two years, INTERPOL has carried out important reforms.  It has expanded the rights of individuals who seek access to or deletion of information about them in the organization’s... Yuriy Nemets 33 5 2017-05-12 International Organizations, Law Enforcement
Consideration of INTERPOL Red Notices and Diffusions by U.S. Immigration Courts Suggests a Uniform Approach During the past several years, the number of cases involving INTERPOL Red Notices and diffusions before the U.S. immigration courts has risen significantly. This suggests that the number of... Yuriy Nemets 37 2 2021-02-19
Individualization of Criminal Involvement Under INTERPOL’s Rules In order for INTERPOL to approve a government’s request for the publication of a Red Notice, such request must include “sufficient judicial data,” which under Article 83(2)(b)(i)... Yuriy Nemets 42 1 2025-12-18 INTERPOL
INTERPOL's Power to Prevent Diffusion Abuse: Legal, Political and Technological Considerations (in response to Dr. Theodore Bromund's 'INTERPOL's Lack of Power to Act Preemptively in Fighting Government Abuse of the Diffusion System') The Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files is an independent body with the exclusive power to adjudicate complaints from individuals seeking the deletion of information about them... Yuriy Nemets 35 7 2019-07-12 INTERPOL, International Organizations
86th INTERPOL General Assembly: Mixed Messages for Refugees On September 26, 2017, in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping officially welcomed the 86th INTERPOL General Assembly.  As this year’s host of the INTERPOL “body of the supreme authority” and a... Yuriy Nemets 33 10 2017-10-13 China Human Rights, INTERPOL
The Role of Refusals to Extradite in the Context of INTERPOL Abuse               It is settled law that a refusal to extradite is not in itself a basis for the deletion of a Red Notice or diffusion from INTERPOL’s files.... Yuriy Nemets 40 9 2024-09-13 Extradition
Mass Prosecutions and INTERPOL Red Notice Abuse In late November 2013, the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, announced his country’s decision to suspend its bid for membership in the European Union in favor of maintaining trade... Yuriy Nemets 33 9 2017-08-25 Turkey, Ukraine INTERPOL, International Organizations
Individualization of Criminal Involvement Under INTERPOL’s Rules  In yet another case, the government conducted an investigation that, as it is described in the Commission’s decision, “had led [the government] to the [individual], and upon her... Yuriy Nemets 42 2 2026-01-16 INTERPOL
Bahamas Prepares Money Laundering (Proceeds of Crime) Act 1995 In July, 1990, the Bahamas ratified the Treaty between the United States and the Bahamas on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters. The Treaty provided for the immobilization of forfeitable assets of... Z.C. Allyson Gibson 12 1 1996-01-01 United States, Bahamas Money Laundering, Drugs & Trafficking, Asset Forfeiture, Treaties, Asset Seizure, International Cooperation, Financial Crimes, Financial Supervision, Banking Supervision
Money Laundering (Proceeds of Drug Trafficking) Bill 1994 In July 1994, The Bahamas ratified the Treaty between the United States and The Bahamas on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters. The Treaty provided for the immobilization of forfeitable assets of... Z.C. Allyson Gibson 11 6 1995-06-01 United States, Bahamas Money Laundering, Drugs & Trafficking, Asset Forfeiture, Treaties
The CLOUD Act: Arguments For and Against On February 27, 2018, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the seminal data privacy case of the term, United States v. Microsoft Corp. At issue in the case is whether the... Zarine Kharazian 34 4 2018-04-20 United States Data Privacy
Department of Justice Charges Seven Russian Intelligence Officers for Computer Hacking and Influence Campaign Targeted At Anti-Doping Agencies, the OPCW, and Other Targets A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted seven Russian officials for their role in hacking, fraud, and influence operations during the 2016 election, the Department of... Zarine Kharazian 34 10 2018-10-13
The 2nd Kroll Report on the Moldovan Bank Scandal and the Role of Scottish Limited Partnerships in Money Laundering On December 22, U.S. private investigative firm Kroll published its second report on the 2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal. This article provides background on the scandal, as well as commentary on... Zarine Kharazian 34 1 2018-01-12 Money Laundering, Offshore Banking
Twenty Years Later, United States and Europe Reaffirm Commitment to Restituting Nazi-Looted Artwork On December 3, 1998, forty-four countries, along with a host of art collectors and NGOs, convened in Washington D.C. to discuss the return of Nazi-looted art. Nazi authorities expropriated artwork... Zarine Kharazian 34 12 2018-12-08 Cultural Property
Twenty Years Later, United States and Europe Reaffirm Commitment to Restituting Nazi-Looted Artwork On December 3, 1998, forty-four countries, along with a host of art collectors and NGOs, convened in Washington D.C. to discuss the return of Nazi-looted art. Nazi authorities expropriated artwork... Zarine Kharazian 34 12 2018-12-08 Cultural Property
U.S. Files Charges against Russian, Ukrainian Defendants for Role in Illegal Trading Scheme Federal authorities have filed charges against eight individuals, several of whom are of Russian or Ukrainian nationality, for hacking into a government database as part of an illegal trading... Zarine Kharazian 35 2 2019-02-08 Russia, Ukraine, United States Cybercrime, Securities Exchange Commission, Securities Law
Czech Court Orders Release of Top Kurdish Official Despite Turkey’s INTERPOL Red Notice Request On Tuesday, February 27, 2018, a Czech court ordered the release of a top Kurdish official despite an INTERPOL Red Notice request submitted by Turkish authorities, the Czech News Agency reported. The... Zarine Kharazian 34 3 2018-03-09 Turkey INTERPOL
Divorcing Fact from Fiction With Regards to the Elephant Ivory Trade On November 17, 2017, the Trump administration announced that its initial reversal of a ban on the importation of elephant ivory from Zimbabwe had been put on hold. The decision comes after criticism... Zarine Kharazian 33 12 2017-12-01
Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Files Application to Return 2,300-Years-Old Marble Bull’s Head to Lebanon On July 8, 1967, French archaeologist Maurice Dunand unearthed a 2,300-years-old, foot tall marble bull’s head from a site at the foot of the Temple of Eshmun in Sidon, Lebanon. Dunand, the director... Zarine Kharazian 33 10 2017-10-06 Lebanon, United States Art and Cultural Property
In Jesner v. Arab Bank, U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Corporate Liability for International Law Violations under the Alien Tort Statute In a 5-4 ruling issued on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) cannot be used to sue foreign corporations. With Justice Kennedy writing for the... Zarine Kharazian 34 4 2018-05-04 United States Counter-terrorism

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