An Interpol Attorney's Perspective on Red Notices, International Extradition and Related Matters
Evidence to validate a claim that a Red Notice or diffusion is required to support requests for correction and/or deletion of personal data, and for that data to be blocked while the CCF studies the case.…
Continue Reading INTERPOL Red Notice blocking or suspension- what is it and how does it work?
Miami, Florida, U.S.A. – Estlund Law has successfully obtained the removal of two Red Notices requested against our clients by the People’s Republic of China.
The clients’ Red Notices were issued in 2017 after the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s government accused them of pyramid selling activities. One client was accused of organizing a pyramid…
Today’s post serves to show how INTERPOL notices can be re-issued, utilizing a recent case to highlight the implications in a real-life scenario.
What are Red Notices?
Red Notices are requests to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action. Red Notices are based on an…
In our last post, we announced the good news that we received earlier this month: Estlund Law successfully applied for the deletion of Russian-requested Red Notices for our clients. That post is here.
Some details of the case are provided below. This information illuminates the manner in which law-abiding individuals can become ensnared in…
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 or their criminal case has been resolved. Today’s focus is on whether to apply for one and when to do so.
How do I know if …
Today’s post will address Article 3 of INTERPOL’s constitution and why it exists.
When an INTERPOL member country’s Red Notice request appears to be predominantly motivated by political, military, religious, or racial reasons, Article 3 requires that the organization deny the request.
Using the example cited in part 1 of this series, Bosnian officials sought…
In today’s post, we deviate from our usual formatting to answer some of the questions frequently posed by Red Notice subjects:
Q: How can a Red Notice be issued based on false charges?
A: As written in a similar blog posted previously, INTERPOL allows its member countries to request or issue Red Notices if…
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…
