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 |
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 |
Venezuela Releases 6 U.S. Detainees and Agrees to Accept Deportees for Sanctions Relief |
On January 31, 2025, Richard Grenell, President Trump’s envoy for special missions, announced on social media that he had succeeded in obtaining the release of six American detainees and an... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
2 |
2025-02-07 |
United States, Venezuela |
Transfer of Prisoners |
FBI Debuts Novel Sting Operation in Cryptocurrency Fraud Case |
CLS Global, a UAE-based cryptocurrency market maker has recently agreed to settle criminal charges that prosecutors have brought against it following a lengthy undercover sting operation by the FBI... |
Austin Wahl |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-31 |
United Arab Emirates, United States |
Fraud |
French Prosecutor Starts Criminal Investigations against Binance |
On January 28, 2025, French investigations announced they had started a criminal investigation into money laundering, tax fraud, unlicensed provision of digital asset services, and failure to... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-31 |
France |
Cybercrime, Fraud, Money Laundering, Tax Crimes |
Trump Issues Executive Orders on Foreign Terrorists and Migration Enforcement |
On January 20, 2025, President Trump on his first day in office issued four executive orders (E.O.s) concerning foreign terrorists, national security, and migration and a proclamation. The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-31 |
United States |
Policy/Directives, Political Leaders, Terrorism |
Italy Has Frustrated the ICC Arrest Warrant For Libyan Warlord Accused of War Crimes |
On January 18, 2025, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC), by majority, issued a “Warrant of Arrest for Mr. Osama Elmasry / Almasri Njeem.” The warrant was... |
Michael Plachta |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-31 |
Italy, Libya |
International Criminal Court, War Crimes |
Council of Europe Calls for Comprehensive Regulation of Mercenaries and Private Military and Security Companies |
At its 4th sitting held on January 28, 2025, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a Resolution and Recommendation on addressing risks to human rights and the rule of... |
Michael Plachta |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-31 |
Europe |
Mercenaries, Regulation |
Latin American Governments Push Back at Trump Administration’s Deportations |
Several Latin American governments have pushed back at the Trump Administration’s deportation efforts. Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, and Guatemala have all pushed back. Until now, Mexico... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-31 |
Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, United States |
Deportation |
International Activities of Brazil's Federal Attorney General's Office |
As a still relatively new legal institution in Brazil, inserted by the National Constituent Assembly in Chapter IV of the 1988 Federal Constitution (On the Functions Essential to Justice),... |
Luiz Fabricio Vergueiro |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-24 |
Brazil |
Extradition |
The Exotic Case of Samuele Landi and His Dream of Settling the Sea |
The death of Samuele Landi while seasteading off the coast of Dubai in an apparent effort to avoid criminal prosecution in Italy evokes the issue of a recent novel way to facilitate fugitivity.
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Austin Wahl |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-24 |
Italy, United Arab Emirates |
Crimes |
Thai Police Seek the Arrest for Cambodian in Murder of Former Cambodian Politician |
On January 16, 2025, police in Thailand announced they had issued an arrest warrant for Somwang Bamrungkit, 42, a Thai-Cambodian dual national known in Cambodia as Ly Ratanakraksmey, in connection... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-24 |
Thailand |
Extradition |
Trump Issues Executive Orders on Foreign Terrorists and Migration Enforcement |
On January 20, 2025, President Trump on his first day in office issued four executive orders (E.O.s) concerning foreign terrorists, national security, and migration and a proclamation. The... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-24 |
United States |
Terrorism |
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 |
Cecilia Sala, an Italian Journalist, has Been Released from Iran Pursuant to a Prisoner Swap |
On January 8, Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, was released from Iran after being detained for twenty-one days. Sala, 29, arrived in Tehran in December on a journalist visa. For two years, she... |
Morinsola Tinubu |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-24 |
Iran, Italy, United States |
Detention, Transfer of Prisoners |
ICC Prosecutor Requests Arrest Warrants for Taliban Leaders for Gender-based Crimes |
On January 23, 2025, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II in the Situation in Afghanistan.[1]... |
Michael Plachta |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-24 |
Afghanistan |
Crimes against Humanity |
U.S. Shares $50m in Forfeited Assets with Estonia in Exchange for Financial Enforcement Activities |
On January 7, 2025, the United States Department of Justice announced it agreed to share $50 million in forfeited assets with the Republic of Estonia (Estonia) in recognition of Estonia’s... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-17 |
Estonia, United States |
Asset Forfeiture, Asset Seizure |
U.S. Agrees to Share $52.8 Million in Forfeited Corruption Proceeds with Nigeria |
On January 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed an agreement, [1]in which the U.S. agreed to transfer approximately $52.88 million in... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-17 |
Nigeria, United States |
Asset Forfeiture, Asset Seizure |
INTERPOL and International Parental Child Abduction |
The complexity of International Parental Child Abduction (IPCA) demands urgent attention. When a child is wrongfully removed or retained in another country without the other parent’s consent... |
Konstantina Zivla |
41 |
2 |
2025-01-17 |
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INTERPOL |
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 |