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INTERPOL Updates Rules and Guidance and Launches Silver Notice |
The past three months have brought sweeping changes to INTERPOL’s personnel, documents, and practices. These changes were made, or announced, at and around INTERPOL’s 92nd General... |
Dr. Ted R. Bromund and Charlie Magri Esq. |
41 |
3 |
2025-02-07 |
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INTERPOL |
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New Developments at the ICC in the Case of Rodrigo Duterte |
On July 4, 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecution submitted the Document Containing the Charges pursuant to Pre-Trial Chamber I’s order (ICC-01/21-01/25-114). The ICC... |
Michael Plachta |
41 |
11 |
2025-10-17 |
Philippines |
International Criminal Court, Trial, War Crimes |
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OECD Releases Report on Designing a Tax Crime Investigation Manual |
On June 16, 2025, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued a report entitled Designing a tax crime investigation manual: Key elements and considerations.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
7 |
2025-06-20 |
OECD |
OECD, Tax Crimes, Tax Enforcement |
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Thousands of Enslaved Online Scam Workers Freed from Myanmar |
On February 20, 2025, the media reported that as many as 1,000 Chinese nationals who have been freed from online scam centers in Myanmar will return to China after an international clampdown on the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
3 |
2025-02-28 |
China, Myanmar |
Human Trafficking, Organized Crime |
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The Council of Europe’s Action Addressing Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine and Impunity |
The Council of Europe (CoE) was the one international organization that reacted immediately to the Russian Federation’s ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine in February... |
Konstantinos D. Magliveras |
41 |
12 |
2025-11-14 |
Europe, Russia, Ukraine |
European Court of Human Rights, International Organizations, War Crimes |
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French Application Filed Against Iran in the ICJ Regarding the Detention of Two French Nationals |
On May 19, 2025, France filed a petition to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) for the ongoing three-year long detainment of two French nationals,... |
Alienor Vogeleer |
41 |
8 |
2025-07-11 |
France, Iran |
Detention, International Courts |
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DOJ Charges 10 Chinese Hackers, 2 Law Enforcement Officers with Stealing Data and Suppressing Free Speech |
On March 5, 2025, the Justice Department, FBI, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Departments of State and Treasury announced their collective campaign to target the insidious cyber-crimes... |
Austin Wahl |
41 |
4 |
2025-03-20 |
China, United States |
Cybercrime |
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Council of Europe and Ukraine Sign a Treaty to Establish a Special Tribunal |
On June 25, 2025, Ukraine and the Council of Europe (CoE) signed an agreement in Strasbourg to establish a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (“Tribunal”).
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Michael Plachta |
41 |
9 |
2025-08-01 |
Russia, Ukraine |
International Courts, Treaties, War Crimes |
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Four US Citizens Charged After DRC Coup d’état Attempt |
On April 9, 2025, the District of Utah unsealed a criminal complaint charging four US citizens with conspiring to conduct an illegal coup d’état against the Democratic Republic of the... |
Austin Wahl |
41 |
5 |
2025-04-18 |
Congo, United States |
Charged with Crimes, Crimes |
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Europol Releases the 2024 Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) |
On December 12, 2024, Europol released its annual “European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT),”[1] which it has produced since 2007.
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Michael Plachta |
41 |
1 |
2024-12-20 |
Europe |
Europol, Terrorism |
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International Joint Operations Against Child Sex Trafficking Result in Prosecutions and Retaliatory Lawsuits |
On October 12, 2014, following months of undercover investigations, an international team of law enforcement and anti-human trafficking organizations sprung Operation Cristal II to simultaneously... |
Luz E. Nagle |
41 |
9 |
2025-08-22 |
Colombia |
Abuse of Children, Human Trafficking, Law Enforcement |
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Europol Disrupts Criminal Organization Smuggling Hazardous Salvage Cars from the US |
On April 16, 2025, Europol issued a press release discussing a law enforcement action targeting an international organization allegedly engaging in smuggling badly damaged cars from the United... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
5 |
2025-05-09 |
European Union, Germany, Lithuania, United States |
Customs, Economic Integration, Tax Crimes |
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U.S. Removes Cuba from List of State Sponsors of Terrorism and Eases Sanctions as Cuba Will Release 553 Political Prisoners |
On January 14, 2025, President Joseph Biden issued an executive order that removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and announced other steps to ease economic penalties. On the... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-17 |
United States |
Sanctions |
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U.N. Commission Alleges that Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza |
On September 16, 2025, the United Nations (UN) Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem and Israel, submitted a report... |
Michael Plachta |
41 |
10 |
2025-09-19 |
Israel, Palestine |
Genocide, Human Rights, International Convention, United Nations |
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Georgian National Charged with Solicitation of Hate Crimes Extradited to U.S. |
On May 22, 2025, twenty-one-year-old Michail Chkhikvishvili, a native of Tbilisi, Georgia, was extradited from Moldova to the U.S. to face a four-count indictment relating to the solicitation of... |
Austin Wahl |
41 |
6 |
2025-05-30 |
Georgia, Moldova, United States |
Organized Crime, Terrorism |
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El Salvador Agrees to Accept Deportees and Detained U.S. Persons |
On February 3, 2025, the U.S. Embassy spokesperson announced that, according to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has agreed to the most unprecedented,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
3 |
2025-02-07 |
El Salvador, United States |
Human Rights |
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U.S. Department of Commerce’s BIS Adopts “50 Percent Rule” |
On September 29, 2025 the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an Interim Final Rule known as the “Affiliates Rule” amending the... |
Michelle Roberts, Jason McClurg, and Dan Fisher-Owens |
41 |
11 |
2025-10-17 |
United States |
Export Enforcement, U.S. Federal Government |
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NYC Judge Rules Art Institute Must Restitute Nazi-Looted Artwork To Heirs |
On April 23, 2025, a New York judge ruled in favor of the heirs of Jewish art collector and cabaret performer Franz Friedrich (Fritz) Grünbaum in a case brought against the Art Institute of... |
Chloe Fontenelle |
41 |
7 |
2025-06-20 |
United States |
Art and Cultural Property |
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Germany's Constitutional Court Overturns Extradition of Non-Binary Citizen to Hungary |
Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the extradition of a German national who identifies as non-binary to Hungary was unlawful, citing violations of the European Union's Charter... |
Emily Hong |
41 |
3 |
2025-02-28 |
Germany, Hungary |
Extradition |
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Mexico Is Credited With Frustrating an Iranian Plot to Kill Israeli Ambassador |
The Mexican government was credited with hindering and, in fact, preventing an Iranian-directed plot to kill the Israeli Ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz-Neiger, as part of a wider attack on... |
Rodrigo Labardini |
41 |
12 |
2025-11-14 |
Iran, Israel, Mexico |
Law Enforcement, National Security |