An Interpol Attorney's Perspective on Red Notices, International Extradition and Related Matters
(Today’s post is courtesy of guest author and J.D. candidate Isabel Alcántara.)
INTERPOL’s Red Notice is not the only alert that INTERPOL’s member countries use in their efforts to locate an alleged criminal. In fact, INTERPOL issues some notices to locate people who have not been charged with a crime. INTERPOL member…
Paul Watson, the leader of the environmental activist organization, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has been arrested and released on bond in Germany for alleged criminal activity in Costa Rican waters nearly ten years ago. Interestingly enough, there appears to have been no Red Notice issued against Mr. Watson based on his Costa Rican activity.
In the previous post, I addressed the issue of a Blue Notice that had been issued by INTERPOL in the name of Ramona Bautista, who is under investigation for a crime alleged to have occurred in the Philippines. Today, the topic is how a Blue Notice request from a member country could be denied by…
Until now, there hasn’t been much occasion to address Blue Notices since they were the topic of several posts here in May of this year.
This week, however, a Blue Notice has been issued in the name of Ramona Bautista, who is under investigation for activity thought to be related to her brother’s murder. Ms.
In the last posts, I addressed the topic of banking and Red Notices. But what of the effect of a Blue Notice, or Green for that matter? For attorneys whose clients are the subjects of INTERPOL-issued Notices, it is the fact of any Notice’s existence that matters, not only Red Notices. While Red Notices are…
Now for the last of the posts on Blue Notices (for a while, at least). In the last post, I discussed the fact that one of the purposes that a member country may provide in its application for an INTERPOL Blue Notice was the tracking of the subject’s movement. While a case is still in…
In keeping with this week’s theme of Blue Notices, this post addresses the question of whether a Blue Notice can eventually lead to a Red Notice. The answer is that old lawyer favorite: it depends. When a Blue Notice Application Form is completed, the requesting country supplies a “purpose” for the request. The purpose may…
A reader recently posted some questions about INTERPOL’s use of Blue Notices. I omitted some of the reader’s comments and questions because of the identifiying information contained therein, but the reader’s basic questions present an opportunity to discuss whether one should be concerned about being the subject of a Blue Notice. The short answer is, yes. …
