An Interpol Attorney's Perspective on Red Notices, International Extradition and Related Matters
In the last post, I addressed the issue of INTERPOL’s involvement in financial disputes arising from debts owed by individuals to financial institutions in the UAE. Today, the focus expands to the broader question of how some member countries abuse INTERPOL’s tools, specifically Red Notices, when they seek to resolve private disputes.
INTERPOL is prohibited…
The UAE banking crisis and its inappropriate involvement with INTERPOL Red Notices, which have been addressed here and here in this blog, appears to drag on still. Parag Deulgaonkar reported recently for Emirates 24/7 that bankers in the UAE are still using INTERPOL’s tools to immobilize expatriates who owe money to their financial institutions.
As…
Humberto Roca’s story may seem unusual to Western minds, but it is all too familiar in the world of INTERPOL abuse. Roca was the owner of a Bolivian airline company called Aerosur Airlines, and as a wealthy business owner who was critical of Bolivia’s government, was charged with “unjust enrichment” as his business was expropriated…
A good number of Red Notice subjects who seek to remove their notices from INTERPOL’s files are legitimate businessmen and women who need to travel to maintain their livelihoods. Many of them find themselves forced to challenge a Red Notice that was improperly issued based on political grounds or business disputes. The fact that they…
A reader recently wrote to ask what happens when an INTERPOL member country’s National Central Bureau (NCB) does not respond to INTERPOL’s requests for confirmation of information supplied by a Red Notice subject or his attorney.
An NCB is obligated to respond to INTERPOL’s request for information in order for INTERPOL to properly process individual…
This is the second in a series of posts addressing the current call for INTERPOL’s reform.
Fair Trials International recently released a report containing its recommendations for change to INTERPOL’s current system. The report, found here, includes two major areas for reform:
1. Protection from abuse of INTERPOL’s tools by member countries, and
2.
This is the second in a series of posts addressing the current call for INTERPOL’s reform
Fair Trials International recently released a report containing its recommendations for change to INTERPOL’s current system. The report, found here, includes two major areas for reform:
1. Protection from abuse of INTERPOL’s tools by member countries, and
2.
A reader recently sent in a question about his ability to travel while INTERPOL may have a Red Notice (or other notice) pending in his name, as well as finding out whether he is actually the subject of such a notice.
I have addressed this topic previously here (under INTERPOL’s Red Notices- Published and Unpublished)…
A reader recently posed a question that is often the first in a long line of questions that arise when one’s life is touched by INTERPOL. The question:
How could one verify and check whether he has a red notice issued by Interpol against his name? I check the Interpol site but I feel information
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(This is the fourth post in a series about the CCF’s Annual Report for 2012)
In his speech to the General Assembly last month, the Chairman of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files raised several issues for the GA’s consideration, and among them was the invitation to work with the General Secretariat…
