Who are the decision makers at INTERPOL’s CCF?
What if the CCF denies my request for the removal of my Red Notice?
What is the CCF?
What’s the difference between a Red Corner Notice and a Red Notice?
What isn’t a Red Notice?
Will INTERPOL Issue a Red Notice Against an Innocent Person?
INTERPOL Red Notices - do they expire?
Should you try to remove an INTERPOL Red Notice yourself?
INTERPOL Red Notices and Immigration. Can You Obtain Immigration Relief in the U.S. Even with a Red Notice?
INTERPOL and Politically Motivated Red Notices - What We Can Learn from INTERPOL’s Annual Reports.
INTERPOL and Child Kidnapping Cases. What are INTERPOL’s Abilities and Limitations?
What to do when finding that you are the subject of a RedNotice?
Can a Yellow Notice be removed?
How long will it take to get a response to my Red Notice request?
Three things the CCF won’t do and why.
Does INTERPOL contact private citizens to request personal or financial information?
How can a private individual report to INTERPOL?
What are the different types of notices used by INTERPOL?
What is the INTERPOL watch list?
Can INTERPOL make an arrest in the United States?
Our last 2 posts discussed INTERPOL’s new Silver Notices and how they relate to crypto, along with the current U.S. presidential administration’s reversal of crypto-related crime-fighting measures as the rest of the world...more
Our last post focused on INTERPOL’s newest notice, the Silver Notice. This new tool allows member countries to request information on assets linked to a person’s criminal activities such as fraud, corruption, drug...more
Who are the decision makers at INTERPOL’s CCF? Michelle Estlund knows that being wanted by INTERPOL is often frightening, isolating, and unjust. She has a proven track record of success with INTERPOL cases, and she uses that...more
Today’s post will address the CCF’s current delays, and how those affect Red Notice subjects globally....more
What’s the difference between a Red Corner Notice and a Red Notice? Michelle Estlund knows that being wanted by INTERPOL is often frightening, isolating, and unjust. She has a proven track record of success with INTERPOL...more
This inaugural issue of ArentFox Schiff’s publication on international mining, energy, and infrastructure disputes aims to provide insights and practical information to general counsels and senior executives of companies...more
Previously, where a country needed assistance from law enforcement in another jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute criminal offences, it would have to go through the notoriously slow and often fruitless process of...more
Will INTERPOL Issue a Red Notice Against an Innocent Person? Michelle Estlund knows that being wanted by INTERPOL is often frightening, isolating, and unjust. She has a proven track record of success with INTERPOL cases, and...more
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...more
INTERPOL and Child Kidnapping Cases. What are INTERPOL’s Abilities and Limitations? Michelle Estlund knows that being wanted by INTERPOL is often frightening, isolating, and unjust. She has the proven track record of success...more
Crypto Exchange Receives CFTC License; Ratings Agency Scores Stablecoins - A recent press release announced that Bitnomial, “a US-regulated digital asset derivates exchange,” has been granted “a US clearinghouse license to...more
A local reader recently asked a question, hoping to learn whether a message they received was a scam. The reader was contacted by someone claiming to be an INTERPOL agent, who alleged that there were 2 cases held against...more
INTERPOL recently published details on its largest coordinated firearms operation ever, called Trigger IX. The operation allowed local authorities in multiple countries to make thousands of arrests and firearm seizures. The...more
As in the previous post in this series, today’s post will discuss the most recent annual activity report of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files(CCF), which has recently become available after the 90th annual...more
First, the CCF won't try to figure out if you're innocent or guilty. Second, the CCF won't order any country to remove an arrest warrant because it can't tell any countries what to do in their own territories. Third, the CCF...more
Egypt’s Red Notice requests for Muslim Brotherhood members- a continuation of Egypt’s past INTERPOL abuses? As discussed in the first two posts in this series, here and here, members of the banned group the Muslim...more
Egypt’s Red Notice requests for Muslim Brotherhood members: political or criminal in nature? As addressed in the last post, earlier this year, the government of Egypt requested that INTERPOL issue Red Notices against...more
In the last post, RNLJ addressed the growing call for meaningful international responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. INTERPOL is among the organizations to which the world is looking for leadership on this issue,...more
INTERPOL’s annual General Assembly is underway, and by the end of Thursday, a new president of INTERPOL will have been elected. Based in part on INTERPOL’s candid responses to RNLJ’s questions regarding the organization’s...more
Red Notice removal requests are often strengthened by collaborative efforts between the attorney who is preparing the removal request and the attorney who represents or represented the client in the country where the notice...more
Every country has a different policy in regard to its antiquities and whether they should be returned to the country from which they originated. For example, the government of the Netherlands suggests that looted art should...more
A critical concern for people who have successfully applied to remove their Red Notices from INTERPOL’s Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files is the question of what will happen if the member country makes another...more
This week, I received a post idea from Rutsel Silvestre J. Martha, of Lindeborg Counsellors at Law. Mr. Martha is a highly respected expert on international law and his 2010 book, The Legal Foundations of INTERPOL, was one of...more
I have a client whose Red Notice was recently blocked by INTERPOL. Blocking is an interim measure that an attorney or client can request while the case is being studied by INTERPOL. When this happens, the notice is not...more
Red Notices are viewed as being at least theoretically valid based upon the requirement that they be approved by the General Secretariat prior to acceptance and/or publication by INTERPOL. ...more