Articles

E.g., 2026-08
Title Abstract Author Volumesort ascending Issue Date Published Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
France Extradites Nigerian to the U.S. on Cybercrime Charges On August 4, 2025, France extradited to the United States (U.S.) Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukuwu, also known as “Chukwuemeka Victor Eletuo,” and “So Kwan Leung” on hacking,... Bruce Zagaris 41 9 2025-08-08 France, United States Cybercrime, Extradition
US Supreme Court Rules that Wrongly Deported Migrant Must Have Hearing and 4th Circuit Denies Government’s Emergency Stay Request On April 10, 2025, in an unsigned order, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to try to return a Salvadoran national and U.S. permanent resident, Abrego Garcia, whom it had... Bruce Zagaris 41 5 2025-04-18 El Salvador, United States Deportation, Human Rights
2024 Retrospective We at the IELR send you best wishes for the new year. 2024 was momentous for the international enforcement community, and we are grateful to have had you following along with our coverage during... Bruce Zagaris 41 1 2025-01-03
U.S. Appellate Court Affirms Decision that Trump’s Tariffs Are Illegal and U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Case on an Expedited Basis On August 29, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a decision ruled 7-4 to uphold the decision of the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) that President Trump’s five... Bruce Zagaris 41 10 2025-09-05 United States Sanctions, Trade Enforcement
Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel Faction Charged with Narco-Terrorism for First Time For the first time in the United States, two leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel have been charged by indictment with narco-terrorism and materially supporting a foreign terrorist organization, in... Austin Wahl 41 6 2025-05-16 United States Court Conviction, Drugs & Trafficking
U.S. Supreme Court Stays Injunction to Allow Implementation of Corporate Transparency Act On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a nationwide injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA).  As a result, pending a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth... Bruce Zagaris 41 2 2025-01-24 United States Money Laundering, Transparency
U.S. Deportees Sue Ghanaian Government Over Breach of Human Rights In September 2025, eleven migrants who had been deported from the United States (U.S.) filed a lawsuit against the government of Ghana, arguing that it had breached their rights and detained them... Austin Wahl 41 11 2025-10-03 Ghana, United States Deportation, Detention, Human Rights
The Real Government Fraud: An Examination of Foreign Actors’ Role in Defrauding the Federal Government The United States federal government is riddled with fraud. This fraud is not the same as the “fraud” that is demonized by the second Trump administration, Elon Musk, and conservative... Dimitris Konstantopoulos 41 7 2025-06-06 China, North Korea, Russia, United States Fraud, Identity Theft, U.S. Federal Government
U.S. Expands Forced-Labor Blacklist: The Impact on Global Trade and Human Rights Enforcement The Biden administration’s recent expansion of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) blacklist, which now includes nearly 30 additional Chinese companies, represents the largest... Emily Hong 41 3 2025-02-14 China, United States Human Rights
ICC Convicts Sudanese Militia Commander for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity On October 6, 2025, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was unanimously convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC or ‘the... Chloe Fontenelle 41 11 2025-10-24 Sudan Crimes against Humanity, International Criminal Court, War Crimes
Ecuador Arrests Leader of Drug Gang on U.S. Extradition Request On June 25, 2025, Ecuadorian law enforcement arrested the country’s most notorious drug trafficker, José Adolfo “Fito” Macłas Villamar. Specialized Ecuadorian police and... Bruce Zagaris 41 7 2025-07-03 Ecuador, United States Drug Enforcement, Organized Crime
OKX Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Violations and Will Pay $500 Million in Penalties On February 24, 2025, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Aux Cayes Fintech Co. Ltd, d/b/a “OkEx,” d/b/a “OKX”, a... Bruce Zagaris 41 4 2025-03-07 Seychelles, United States Cybercrime, Money Laundering
The High Court of Australia Paves the Way for the Use of “AN0M” Evidence – and Validates Global “Outsourcing” On October 8, the High Court of Australia issued a ruling entitled CD v. Commonwealth of Australia that validated legislation rapidly adopted by the Parliament to remove evidentiary... Frederick T. Davis 41 12 2025-11-26 Australia Evidence Sharing, International Law, Trial
Lithuania Brings Landmark Migrant Smuggling Case Against Belarus Before the ICJ On May 19, 2025, Lithuania officially introduced proceedings against Belarus before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).  In its application, the country accuses Belarus of directing... Chloe Fontenelle 41 8 2025-07-25 Belarus, Lithuania Human Rights, International Courts, Smuggle, United Nations
German Appellate Court Allows Prosecution against 5 Bankers On March 25, 2025, the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court ruled that five bankers who were former top managers of Deutsche Pfandbriefbank and profited from cum-cum-share transactions must undergo... Bruce Zagaris 41 4 2025-03-28 Germany Criminal Procedure/Proceedings
UN Adopts Resolution on Further Work on the Convention on Crimes Against Humanity On December 4, 2024, the General Assembly adopted, without a vote, the resolution “Crimes Against Humanity,”[1] to launch the process of codifying into an international binding... Michael Plachta 41 1 2024-12-06 Crimes against Humanity
Environmental Investigation Agency Uncovers Massive Illegal Mercury Trade in Gold Mining On July 24, 2025, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) published a report (the report) describing a vast, illegal mercury trade running from Mexico down to Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, where... Austin Wahl 41 9 2025-08-15 Latin America and South America Environment
UNODC Releases New Report on Organized Crime Networks in Southeast Asia On April 21, 2025, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a new report on a global expansion of East and Southeast Asian organized crime groups. The report concentrates on an... Michael Plachta 41 5 2025-04-25 Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand Organized Crime, United Nations
McKinsey Agrees to Pay Over $122 Million to Settle Bribery Investigation On December 5, 2024, McKinsey and Company Africa Ltd., a subsidiary of McKinsey & Company, agreed to pay over $122 million to settle a bribery investigation regarding schemes orchestrated... Morinsola Tinubu 41 1 2025-01-03 South Africa, United States Bribery
Prohibition on Extradition of Nationals Limits Extradition by Suriname Suriname is a relatively rare example today of a South American state in which the nationality bar remains a major barrier to extradition, with there being no practical alternative form of justice... Rodrigo de Abreu Fudoli 41 10 2025-09-05 Suriname Extradition

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