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.
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.
On June 25, 2025, Ecuadorian law enforcement arrested the country’s most notorious drug trafficker, José Adolfo “Fito” Macłas Villamar. Specialized Ecuadorian police and military intelligence officers, with help from the United States (U.S.), found him hiding in a basement in the coastal city of Manta, in a bunker under the property of his romantic partner.
On June 24, 2025, Europol released its annual “European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT)”,[1] which it has produced since 2007.
At its 22nd sitting on June 24, 2025, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted its Resolution 2605 (2025) entitled Legal and Human Rights Aspects of the Russian Federation’s Aggression Against Ukraine.
After extensive prosecutorial efforts from the United States (U.S.) Department of Justice (DOJ), Carlos Martinez was finally sentenced for his role in an illicit scheme to monopolize transnational used-vehicle exports.
On June 17, 2025, Guatemala extradited Steven Ovaldino Lorenzana Avarenga, also known as “Chipi,” and Allan Mendoza, also known as “Carnes” and “Carnitas,” both Guatemalan nationals, to the United States (U.S.) to face drug trafficking conspiracy charges. They made their initial appearances in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia the following day. [1]
