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 Tuesday, July 8, 2025, the District of Puerto Rico charged two American citizens with defrauding thousands of investors of over $650 million by promising excellent returns (as much as 300% over sixteen months)[2] on cryptocurrency and foreign exchange investments while making various security assurances.
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, Ms. Cécile Kohler and Mr. Jacques Paris, who were on holiday in Iran when they were detained for alleged spying for the French government on May 8, 2022.
On June 10, 2025, the European Commission updated its list of high-risk jurisdictions that present strategic deficiencies in their national anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes.
On July 3, 2025, the United States (U.S.) Supreme Court in an unsigned order permitted the Trump administration to deport eight men who had spent more than one month under guard on a U.S. military base on Djibouti to South Sudan.
United States (U.S.) academic institutions house vast stores of federally funded research in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biotechnology.
Since the Belgian colonization of Rwanda, there have been strong ethnic tensions between the two main ethnic groups: the Tutsi and the Hutu. Because Belgium institutionalized the differences between the two groups and favored the Tutsi, the tensions between the two groups escalated, ultimately leading to and resulting in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
On June 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a significant enforcement action against GVA Capital (“GVA”), a California-based venture capital firm, imposing the statutory maximum penalty of $216 million.
On June 24, 2025, Spain’s High Court approved the extradition of William Jofre Alcivar Bautista, also known as “Commander Willy,” to Ecuador with conditions on safety assurances.
In June 2025, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published findings indicating that Chinese authorities have leveraged Interpol Red Notices alongside government-organized non-governmental organizations (GONGOs) to pursue dissidents living abroad.
On June 16, 2025, the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt, Germany, sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for crimes against humanity and war crimes. The defendant, who has only been identified as Alaa M. due to German legal privacy laws, was accused of murdering two people and torturing nine more in Syria in a period between 2011 and 2012.
