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 January 26, 2024, Kenya’s high court blocked its government’s plan to deploy hundreds of police to Haiti to head a UN-supported multinational mission to fight rising gang violence.
On February 2, 2024, as tensions between the United States and the Iranian governments increased, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the unsealing of three federal cases as part of its efforts to combat the illicit trafficking of Iranian oil that finances Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designate Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), and its Qods Force (IRGC-QF). The latter is Iran’s main mechanism for furnishing support to terrorist organizations abroad.[1]
[1] DOJ, Justice Department Announces Terrorism and Sanctions-Evasion Charges and Seizures Linked to Illicit, Billion-Dollar Global Oil Trafficking Network that Finances Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Its Malign Activities, Feb. 2, 2024.
On February 2, 2024, a Danish court in Glostrup, Denmark sentenced a British citizen to six years in prison for his role in a cum-ex dividend case. The court also confiscated DKK 175 million (equivalent to U.S. $25.3 million) from Guenther Klar.[1]
[1] Danish National Special Crime Unit, British citizen sentenced to sex years in prison in dividend case, Feb. 2, 2024.
On January 25, 2024, United States District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall of the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) sentenced 52-year-old Garri Smith to 48 months in prison for his role in an international bank heist and money laundering scheme spanning seven countries over four years of illicit activity.[1] The sentencing follows up on Smith’s guilty plea in June 2022 and marks the end of his prosecution in the matter since first being arrested in April 2021.[2]
On January 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice, delivered its Order on the Request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by Ukraine in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel).
On January 29, 2024, the United States Department of Justice announced that an indictment has been unsealed against an Iranian and two Canadian nationals for conspiracy to use interstate commerce in the commission of a murder-for-hire plot.
On January 31, 2024, the International Court of Justice (the Court) handed down its judgment in the case concerning the Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Ukraine v. Russian Federation).
On January 16, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg delivered its judgment in a case of al-Hawsawi v. Lithuania (application no. 4383/17). The case concerns a national of Saudi Arabia who is currently on trial before a US military commission in Guantánamo Bay on suspicion of being a facilitator and financial manager of al-Qaeda.
On January 22, 2024, United States authorities reported that four days before Costa Rica extradited Jose Lazaro Cruz, 60, to the U.S. where he was charged with responsibility for the death of his former wife in Virginia. This sentence lacks clarity. I would change but do not know the background information.
