I recently had the pleasure of speaking with fellow practitioners Yuriy Nemets of Nemets Law and Ben Keith of 5 Saint Andrew’s Hill in a segment of the Nemets Law-hosted webinar series, “Open Conversations about INTERPOL Abuse.” The recorded conversation includes examples of Red Notice abuse in multiple countries, such as Ecuador, India, Mozambique, Paraguay
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Red Notice and the Dual Criminality Requirement-INTERPOL attorney Michelle Estlund
The main purpose of an INTERPOL Red Notice is for INTERPOL’s member countries to help each other find and extradite fugitives and bring them to justice.
So why do we sometimes see a wanted person living openly in another country, without being extradited to the country where she is wanted by the authorities?
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Answers to questions about INTERPOL- for Red Notice Subjects
For people who find themselves the subject of Red Notices, it seems that the more questions they ask, the more confused they become. Part of this phenomenon is due to the nature of INTERPOL: it can be difficult to digest the verbiage used by INTERPOL, and the organization’s processes and rules are not exactly intuitive.…
INTERPOL Red Notices and travel- will authorities still stop me after the notice has been removed?
A primary concern for clients who seek to remove Red Notices from INTERPOL’s databases is what happens after they succeed in their efforts. There are many purposes for seeking the removal of a Red Notice, but a main focus for most clients is to be able to travel more easily and without the concern that…
INTERPOL’s CCF- challenges and trends
Today’s post is a continuation of our series on INTERPOL’s CCF, its annual reports, and what the information in those reports might mean for a Red Notice subject seeking to have a Red Notice removed.
In the CCF most recent annual report, the Commission conveyed its observations about a variety of subjects, including a growing…
INTERPOL Red Notices and extradition- what happens if extradition is denied?
One of the primary purposes of a Red Notice is for INTERPOL’s member countries to assist each other in finding Red Notice subjects and extraditing them back to the countries who seek to prosecute or sentence them.
Sometimes, when authorities find a Red Notice subject in their country and alert the original requesting country to…
INTERPOL and attorneys- does your attorney designation affect the CCF’s processing of your case?
One of the most personal aspects of an INTERPOL case concerns a Red Notice subject’s decison about attorney representation. On that topic, a reader sent in the following question:
Can a termination of legal representation of a lawyer after the submission of the application form to the CCF ( deletion request) and before the first
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INTERPOL Red Notice removal and why Red Notices are sometimes wrongly issued
One of the most frequent questions people have about INTERPOL Red Notices is how a Red Notice can be issued in a case where the prosecution was politically motivated. The question is a valid one, particularly given INTERPOL’s prohibition of involvement in political cases. INTERPOL specifies in one of its fact sheets, here, that:…
INTERPOL’s CCF to begin publication of decisions (Part 2 of RNLJ’s New Rules series)
As discussed in the last post, here, INTERPOL’s new rules governing the CCF took effect in March. From a practitioner’s standpoint, among the more significant changes is the CCF’s new task of publishing its opinions and providing reasoning for them.
The CCF is now required to “endeavour to make its decisions, opinions, recommendations and…
INTERPOL Red Notice removal cases- a sample of results from 2016, part 3
As the year begins, and changes appear to be coming to both INTERPOL and the CCF,* Red Notice Law Journal reviews some highlights from the CCF’s activity in 2016:
Third case study: a comparison of the CCF’s treatment of Russian Red Notice requests:
In today’s post, I’ll compare two very different decisions from the…