An Interpol Attorney's Perspective on Red Notices, International Extradition and Related Matters
Today’s post will address the limited publicity of some of the CCF’s decisions.
The Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (CCF) releases confidential decisions to the General Secretariat, the applicant, and the concerned National Central Bureaus upon receiving individual requests. As provided for in the Statute of the CCF, all decisions are issued…
Today’s post will address the CCF’s current delays, and how those affect Red Notice subjects globally.
INTERPOL has provided online notification for some time now of the delays being experienced due to higher influxes of requests, along with longer submissions, stating:
The CCF has been experiencing delays in meeting its deadlines due to increases in …
Late last year, after growing increasingly frustrated with the CCF’s uncharacteristically delayed responses to both access requests and removal requests, we inquired directly to the CCF as to the Commission’s seeming lack of compliance with Article 40(3) of the Statute on the CCF, which requires notification to the parties when the required deadlines are not…
In our last post, we addressed the ongoing issue of China’s abuse of Red Notices against people who owned very successful businesses and against dissidents. Today, we’ll consider a primary goal of certain criminal cases being filed against those individuals: asset seizure.
In China and much of the world, a person’s assets may be…
Our last post discussed the financial difficulties that may remain following Red Notice removal. Today’s post will similarly detail the residual effect of Red Notices in government and police databases.
Once INTERPOL’s CCF has determined that an individual’s case is either not truly criminal, politically motivated, or without sufficient legal information to sustain a Red…
After INTERPOL deletes a Red Notice, whether due to it being politically motivated or otherwise improperly requested, INTERPOL’s member countries are notified of the deletion. This should be reflected in each country’s records, but this is not always the case. …
Continue Reading United States and Lyon, France: Reputational Repair After an INTERPOL Red Notice Win: Banking and Finances (Part 1 of 3)
As the previous post in this series addressed the systems in place to prevent INTERPOL abuse and Secretary General Jürgen Stock’s recent comments on that topic, today’s post will focus on what is needed for these reforms to be effective.
After INTERPOL’s Secretary General Jürgen Stock’s reform efforts had been integrated, INTERPOL still had to…
INTERPOL’s Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (CCF’s) third session of the year occurred from October 16th to the 20th. As no further sessions are publicly scheduled for this year, this will likely be the last session during which the CCF will review INTERPOL notice subjects’ requests for notice removal and access to information. …
In our last post, we discussed the issue of former Red Notice subjects facing difficulty upon entry to the United States, even though their Red Notices had been removed. Today’s focus is on whether to apply for one and when to do so.
How do I know if I could benefit from a Redress Control …
Today, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued new agency-wide guidelines regarding how its employees will address situations in which Red Notices and Diffusions exist.
The guidelines, found here, contain several important provisions that should significantly affect the experiences of people who seek immigration benefits or relief while being the subjects of Red…
