On December 5, 2023, U.S. law enforcement authorities announced the unsealing of a two-count indictment in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, charging Vladimir Jovancic, 52, a national of Bosnia and Herzegovina residing in Serbia with obstructing justice[1] and helping a Russian defendant escape from Italian custody[2] where he was involved in an extradition proceeding on U.S. charges.[3]

On September 14, 2023, the Human Rights Council held its biennial panel discussion on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, under the theme of the impact of unilateral coercive measures and over-compliance on the right to development[1] and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

As gang and gun violence surges in the Western Hemisphere, Sir Ronald Sanders, in his capacity as president of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) convened a special meeting on November 1, 2023.  

On December 1, 2023, the United States government deported a former Chilean Army officer from Florida to Chile to answer criminal charges in the kidnapping, torture, and killing of a popular singer and prison director in the aftermath of the 1973 military coup which overthrew the administration of Chilean President Salvador Allende.

  On November 20, 2023, the Danish Supreme Court overruled a lower court decision and order a large Danish law firm Bech-Bruun to pay DKK 400 million (approximately $58.6 million) for its advise to Germany’s North Channel Bank about cum ex-dividend transactions

 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]