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 October 3, 2023, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) released an alarming report warning that there is an overwhelming risk that human rights atrocities will continue in Ethiopia, and it is vital that independent investigations into the country’s dire human rights situation persist.
On September 29, 2023, the United States Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Albemarle Corporation (Albemarle) a publicly-traded specialty chemicals manufacturing company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, has agreed to enter into a Non-Prosecution Agreement and Pay more than $218 million to settle investigations into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) arising from Albemarle’s engagement in corrupt activities to pay bribes to government officials in multiple foreign countries.
On September 20, United States law enforcement authorities obtained custody of Greg Lawson, 63, of Ringgold, Louisiana. Lawson was convicted in May 1991 but shortly before the verdict was announced, Lawson disappeared. The FBI had searched for him and suspected he had fled to Mexico.
On September 18, 2023, Justin Trudeau, speaking in the House of Commons, said Canadian authorities are pursuing “credible allegations” of connections between agents of the Indian government to the killing of a Sikh leader in Canada.
On September 21, 2023, U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen sentenced Mark Gyetvay to 86 months in prison after a jury in March found him guilty of crimes arising out of hiding millions of dollars in undisclosed Swiss bank accounts and submitting a false filing with the IRS.
On September 26, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights – Grand Chamber (Court) delivered a judgment in the case of Yüksel Yalçınkaya v. Türkiye (application no. 15669/20).
On September 26, 2023, prosecutors in the Barcelona financial crimes unit released new details alleging Shakira defrauded the Spanish Treasury of approximately $6.4 million in 2018, when she resided in Spain through a “network of businesses” to transfer her music rights to companies.
On August 2, 2023, an Edinburgh court ruled that Nicholas Rossi, a convicted sex offender who faked his own death, can be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States to face sexual assault charges in Utah.
On September 14, 2023, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of Treasury issued a press release that Paul Andrew Goldfinch, a New Zealand citizen living in the United Arab Emirates and Russia, was removed from the Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN).
On September 15, 2023, Mexican authorities extradited Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33, of Culiacan, Mexico. A federal court in Chicago arraigned the oldest son of former drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, on September 18. Mexican authorities arrested Guzman Lopez in January pursuant to a U.S. request for his provisional arrest with a view toward extradition.
