An Interpol Attorney's Perspective on Red Notices, International Extradition and Related Matters
A fellow attorney contacted me recently with a common question. The inquiry was as follows:
After I requested that a Red Notice against my client be removed, I received no answer, but it disappeared from INTERPOL’s website. Can I assume that it has been removed?
As with any question about assumptions, the answer is that…
A reader posted this comment recently:
Just wanted to know if a person committed a crime 28 years ago and has been on the run ever since, would that individual be on the Interpol red list if he tries to fly internationally?
We naturally assume that the question is merely one of curiousity, and posed…
Not too far in the future, INTERPOL’s General Assembly will gather in Rome for its annual meeting. The General Assembly is charged with making decisions about how the organization will be run in the coming year, and considers everything from general policy matters to resources to electing the members of the Executive Committee. From November…
I recently read an online inquiry by a Red Notice subject who had been advised that her Red Notice was “in the process of being removed” by the prosecuting attorney. The subject wondered how long the removal would take.
Every INTERPOL member country has its own National Central Bureau (NCB), which acts as a liaison…
Once upon a time, a business with interests abroad had little reason to consider INTERPOL in its evaluation of whether to accept international business opportunities. That time is no longer.
As INTERPOL grows and its member countries have increasing contact with one another both politically and economically, so grows the need for private businesses to…
In last week’s post on the Egyptian (since failed) effort to obtain Red Notices against NGO staff members, the focus was on the Red Notice aspect of the issue. One of the readers, however, sent in this comment:
Great article and thanks. But you did not mention how diffusion notices bypass any oversight or appeal…
If a Red Notice subject applies for and is granted political asylum in a given country, does that necessarily mean that his claim to INTERPOL of politically motivated criminal charges will be successful?
And if a Red Notice subject’s claim to INTERPOL that his Red Notice is based on a politically motivated criminal charge succeeds…
One of the very few moments that a criminal defendant has control over a criminal matter is when he first becomes aware of the criminal allegations. If a defendant’s attorney acts quickly enough, information discovered during an investigation can prevent charges from ever being filed. If they are filed, the information that was gathered during…
MSNBC reporter Greg Keller writes that twenty-five suspected members of Anonymous were arrested in connection with hacking into various law enforcement databases. An investigation that began in mid-February led to the arrests.
Now it is being reported that INTERPOL’s website also may have been the victim of an attack by Anonymous when its website…
Since completing the first session of the year in late January, the staff and commission members of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (CCF) are likely a bit tired.
Each year, the number of Red Notices grows. In January, INTERPOL’s Secretary General, Ronald Noble, confirmed that the number of wanted notices in…
