I received a question from a reader this week who was interested in knowing which countries were actually INTERPOL member countries. INTERPOL keeps an updated list of its member countries on its website on this page. Each member country has its own page of facts and relevant information. Many also have links to press
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INTERPOL’s Website and the Value of Published Red Notices
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I was recently contacted by a representative of a financial watch list compliance organization. He had an interesting question: How valuable is the information in INTERPOL’s website? His goal was to determine whether the information on the website was valuable enough to provide to the subscribers to his watch list.
Of course, the determination of…
INTERPOL’s I-link system: Growing Pains
When INTERPOL introduced its I-link system, the goal of the system was to provide its member countries with near-instant access to one another’s shared information about wanted subjects. While that goal clearly has been met, it hasn’t been without some bumps in the road.
Along with the benefit of instant access come the…
Mother, May I? The effect of an INTERPOL challenge on extradition proceedings
In a continuation of a series of posts about the CCF’s Annual Report for 2011, today’s post focuses on a perhaps surprising, but apparently common, occurence in INTERPOL member country courts around the world.
In its Annual Report, the CCF noted that many domestic courts were confused about INTERPOL’s role in extradition proceedings. The…
Business Disputes and INTERPOL: Too Scary for Halloween?
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In honor of Halloween, many of us decorate with images of scary jack-o-lanterns, witches, ghosts, and the like. We expect people to surprise us from around the corner, and to yell “Boo!” when we don’t expect it. Part of the fun of being scared on Halloween is knowing that the fright is only temporary, and…
INTERPOL Red Notice Suspension Requested by Colombia
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While there is no doubt that INTERPOL holds great power over the lives of people who are the subjects of its notices, and that INTERPOL has one of the strongest international networks in the world, we are reminded this week of the fact that INTERPOL does not own the information in its files.
Every INTERPOL…
INTERPOL’s Red Notices: Do They Expire?
When clients or attorneys ask me what an INTERPOL Red Notice is, I often answer that it’s similar to what we would call a BOLO in the United States. A BOLO, or Be On the Lookout, is an announcement dissiminated to law enforcement officials that describes a criminal suspect in an effort to have him…
Red Notice Removal by the Requesting Country: The Quickest Resolution of All
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…
Challenging INTERPOL Red Notices: What if we lose?
Red Notice subjects who are considering challenging their Red Notices have frequently exhausted all of their other options. Their efforts to show investigating police officers that they are innocent have failed; they have been charged and improperly convicted despite mutliple law violations by government officials; and they have fled their countries due to a very…
Red Notices: Questions from the Audience
A reader sent in this series of questions, which are good ones for INTERPOL newbies:
1. Can a country member of Interpol get a red notice, if this country has sentenced a person in absence, without this person having been stopped and obviously without having knowledge that in some country she was prosecuted
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