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INTERPOL Red Notices and Diffusions: Legal Risks, Immigration Consequences, and Strategic Defense

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Introduction - INTERPOL—the International Criminal Police Organization—facilitates international cooperation among law enforcement agencies in locating and apprehending fugitives across borders. Central to this system are...more

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Lyon, France- INTERPOL’s Newest Notice Is Silver (Part 3 of 3: President Trump Has A Crypto Business And He Disbanded The U.S....

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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

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Who are the decision makers at INTERPOL’s CCF?

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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

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What’s the difference between a Red Corner Notice and a Red Notice?

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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

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Interpol's first Silver Notice: Increasing global law enforcement cooperation to facilitate international asset recoveries

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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

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Will INTERPOL Issue a Red Notice Against an Innocent Person?

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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

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INTERPOL and Child Kidnapping Cases. What are INTERPOL’s Abilities and Limitations?

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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

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U.S.A.- Identifying INTERPOL Red Notice scams

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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

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Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay: How an INTERPOL-led operation seeking illicit firearms may affect Red Notice subjects

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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

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INTERPOL’s CCF: the Annual Report for 2021 (Post 2 of 3)

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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

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What are three things that the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files won’t do, and why?

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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

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INTERPOL Red Notice: Egypt’s Red Notices and the Muslim Brotherhood- Part 3 of 3

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 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

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INTERPOL Red Notice: Egypt’s Red Notices and the Muslim Brotherhood- Part 2 of 3

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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

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INTERPOL’s statement on its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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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

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The United Arab Emirates, INTERPOL’s Funding, and why Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi’s presidential candidacy is a problem

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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

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Belgium, India, and U.S.- INTERPOL Red Notices and Cross-border co-counseling

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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

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Can India (or any member country) make another request after INTERPOL refuses to issue a Red Notice?

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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

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How a traffic stop in Russia or Syria could result in an INTERPOL Red Notice being detected

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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

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Blocked Red Notice- what does it mean?

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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

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INTERPOL Red Notices and Diffusions- the difference between the two and why it matters

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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

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Red Notice removal from INTERPOL, and when NOT to apply

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Some Red Notice subjects are surprised when I tell them that they should not hire me to seek the removal of their names from INTERPOL’s wanted list. There are times when the best course of action is not to go to INTERPOL for...more

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Answers to questions about INTERPOL- for Red Notice Subjects

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For people who find themselves the subject of Red Notices, it seems that the more questions they ask, the more confused they become.  Part of this phenomenon is due to the nature of INTERPOL:  it can be difficult to digest...more

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INTERPOL Red Notices- It’s Not You, It’s Me: When Banks Break up with Red Notice Subjects

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One of the more inconvenient results of being the subject of a Red Notice is that your bank might break up with you.  One of the more frustrating parts of that break up may be that the bank won’t say exactly why....more

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INTERPOL, Red Notices and Russia’s Navalny situation- how the EU’s response to Russian human rights abuse matters to INTERPOL

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As most followers of Russian news know by now, opposition leader and activist Alexei Navalny was detained immediately upon his recent return to Russia, after a 5-month absence due to his recovery in Germany from nerve agent...more

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INTERPOL Red Notices and removal (deportation) proceedings after a Red Notice is found

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In the last post, I discussed  the case of a man who had been placed into removal proceedings by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)....more

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