The International Enforcement Law Reporter is a monthly print and online journal covering news and trends in international enforcement law.
Since September 1985, the International Enforcement Law Reporter has analyzed the premier developments in both the substantive and procedural aspects of international enforcement law. Read by practitioners, academics, and politicians, the IELR is a valuable guide to the difficult and dynamic field of international law.
On September 9, 2025, the United States (U.S.) District Court for the Eastern District of New York unsealed an indictment charging Ukrainian national Volodymyr Viktorovych Tymoshchuk with serving as an administrator for several global ransomware schemes (malware-enabled extortion that encrypts or steals data and demands payment).
In September 2025, four of the world’s core anti–money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) actors - the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), INTERPOL, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) - released a coordinated package on international cooperation.
On September 8, 2025, at the Regional Security and Justice Summit, the Inter-American Development (IDB) agreed to commit an estimated $2.5 billion in loans for the next three years to fortify citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing actions to promote community protection, fortify institutions, and curb illicit financing.
On September 23, 2025, UBS Group AG, a Swiss-based international investment bank and financial services firm, announced it had settled a criminal tax case concerning its cross-border business activities in France between 2004 and 2012.
On September 18, 2025, the Denpasar District Court in Bali, Indonesia, convicted Ukrainian national Roman Nazarenko of producing illegal drugs, sentencing him to life in prison.[2] The case is part of a greater ongoing crackdown in Indonesia seeking to curb illicit drug production and trafficking within the large island nation.
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 illegally.
On September 19, 2025, United States (U.S.) District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, dismissed the government’s suit against a taxpayer to reduce assessed penalties to judgment and collect the penalties imposed for her failure to file foreign bank account reports.
On September 23, 2025, in a joint statement, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso announced their intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The three member states of the Alliance of Sahel States have announced their immediate withdrawal from the Rome Statute, accusing the ICC of practicing “selective justice.”
On August 28, 2025, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the United States (U.S.) District Court for the Northern District of California granted the U.S. Government’s motion to compel Apple to give subscriber and payment information of an individual concerning an investigation by the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (SFTA), holding that a potential criminal investigation in Switzerland does not show bad faith on the part of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
On September 22, 2025, the United States (U.S.) Department of the Treasury unveiled new sanctions targeting Viviane Barci de Moraes -- the wife of previously sanctioned Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, Alexandre de Moraes -- and Lex Instituto de Estudos Juridicos LTDA under the Global Magnitsky Act.
