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 November 30, 2023, the Twenty-Eighth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) adopted a decision titled “Addressing the Threat from Chemical Weapons Use and the Threat of Future Use."
On November 22, 2023, the Financial Action Task Force released a joint 62-page report with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) holistically examining money laundering and financial crime risks associated with investment migration programs, including risks related to foreign bribery, fraud, and corruption, alongside other policy considerations related to public integrity, tax, and migration.
On November 13 and 14, 2023, the U.S.-EU Ministerial Meeting on Justice and Home Affairs took place in Washington, D.C., and tackled a variety of international enforcement law issues, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, counterterrorism, cybercrime, migration, transnational organized crime, evidence gathering, and migration enforcement.
On November 29, 2023, U.S. law enforcement officials announced the unsealing of a superseding indictment of murder-for-hire charges against Indian national Nikhil Gupta in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. On June 30, 2023, Czech authorities arrested and detained Gupta pursuant to the U.S.-Czech extradition treaty.
On November 20, 2023, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides announced he asked an unnamed “third country” to dispatch an experienced group of financial crime experts to help with investigations into old and new allegations that Cypriot financial service providers helped Russian oligarchs evade international sanctions.[1]
On November 21, 2023, Binance Holdings Limited (Binance), which operates the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance.com, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay over $4 billion in penalties to resolve the Justice Department’s investigation into violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), failure to register as a money transmitting business, and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
On October 31, 2023, the French Financial Prosecutors’ (PNF) office announced it detained for questioning Russian oligarch and billionaire Alexey Kuzimichev in connection with alleged tax evasion, money laundering and violating international sanctions.
On November 17, 2023, the International Court of Justice (ICJ or the Court) delivered its Order on the request for the indication of provisional measures made by Armenia in the case concerning the Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Armenia v. Azerbaijan).
On November 16, 2023. The International Court of Justice delivered its Order on the request for the indication of provisional measures made by Canada and the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the case concerning Application of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Canada and the Netherlands v. Syrian Arab Republic).
On November 15, 2023, French judicial authorities granted international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother, and two army generals for alleged conspiracy in war crimes and crimes against humanity. Besides President Assad, the court issued arrest warrants against his brother, Maher Assad, the commander of the 4th Armored Division, and two Syrian army generals, Ghassan Abbas and Bassam a-Hassan.
