An Interpol Attorney's Perspective on Red Notices, International Extradition and Related Matters
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…
Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting at a panel seminar along with several colleagues from the public and private sectors, listed here.
The program, presented by the ABA National Security Committee and International Law Section program, was entitled, “Latest Developments in INTERPOL’s Fight Against Transnational Repression.” The link to the program video…
Today’s post will address the realities and implications of INTERPOL’s dealings with criminal cases involving cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency, although not new to modern culture, is still relatively new to the world of INTERPOL. Crypto has been popular for over a decade, having been invented in 2009 and named the year’s best investment by Forbes in 2013…
The previous posts in this series addressed the need for the CCF to schedule sessions proportionally to the number of requests for relief it receives each year. RNLJ advocates that it is not feasible to continue scheduling 3-4 sessions every year if the number of requests the CCF receives continues to increase.
Recalling the statistics…
Our last post discussed the CCF’s scheduled sessions for 2024 and how more time may be necessary for the CCF to issue timely responses and make timely decisions. Today’s post will discuss INTERPOL’s previous reform efforts within the Commission and ways in which those efforts should continue.
Reform Within the CCF
Although sometimes it may…
While the increase in CCF sessions this year should be beneficial, it would be productive for the Commission to routinely schedule more sessions so that all requests will be processed and decided in a timely manner.
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Continue Reading Lyon France: INTERPOL’s CCF- This Year’s Schedule (part 1 of 3)
Miami, Florida, U.S.A.- Estlund Law has successfully obtained the removal of three Red Notices for our client, Arturo Escobar. Mr. Escobar was accused of bribery, organized crime, and money laundering in Ecuador and Panama.
Corruption in Ecuador causes politically motivated prosecutions
Mr. Escobar’s case arose from a political dispute between two of Ecuador’s former presidents. After a…
