On September 17, 2026, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in an opinion by Judge Vice Chhabria ordered the enforcement of IRS summonses issued to banks at the request of the South Korean National Tax service, holding that the IRS properly relied on the South Korean government’s representations and that the individual under investigation was not entitled to advance notice since the summonses related to foreign taxes.

                 The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has expanded the sectors of the Iranian economy subject to secondary sanctions, suspended several longstanding general licenses and other authorizations, imposed additional sanctions targeting Iran’s civil aviation sector, and adopted a presumption of denial for Iran-related specific license applications. At the same time, the United States has continued to ease restrictions on Syria, including rescinding its designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but the full implementation of that change is yet to come.

               INTERPOL cases arising from family disputes may generate several forms of data at once: a Red or Blue Notice concerning a parent and a Yellow Notice concerning a child.  Although each Notice remains subject to its own legal test, reviewing the files in isolation may conceal the common factual basis and the continuing purpose of the data. This article examines the procedural basis for linked review before the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files, analyses three published CCF decisions, and describes an anonymized matter in which requests concerning a mother and child were presented as a connected factual group.  It argues that coordinated applications can improve the accuracy of the CCF’s assessment without creating any presumption of deletion.

               On September 17, 2026, the European Parliament adopted its resolution on narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters. As criminal drug trafficking networks become more interconnected, organized and aggressive, Members of European Parliament (MEPs) are asking for a comprehensive, coordinated European Union (EU)-wide response in a resolution adopted on Thursday with 601 votes in favor, 4 against and 5 abstentions.

            On September 9, 2026, a federal magistrate judge in Miami ordered Andrew (39) and Tristan Tate (38) to remain in federal detention while they fight extradition to the United Kingdom (UK). The brothers — dual citizens of the United States and Britain — are popular right-wing streamers who now face several charges including rape and human trafficking from the UK, all of which they have denied. They also face ongoing charges from a 2022 arrest in Romania, where they previously lived.

                Five European countries say they have requested evidence from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) under Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaties (MLATs) with respect to investigations related to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and have yet to receive assistance. The DOJ said it does not comment on the status of MLAT requests with foreign counterparts.

                On September 16, 2026, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers delivered the Trial Judgment in the case of Specialist Prosecutor v. Hashim Thaҫi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi, and Jakup Krasniqi (KSC-BC-2020-06).  The Trial Panel II found that all four accused were criminally responsible for four counts of the war crimes of arbitrary detention against 385 individuals, cruel treatment against 49 individuals, torture against 303 individuals, and murder against 96 individuals. 

                On September 4, 2026, Argentine judge Santiago Inchausti ordered that a painting looted by the Nazis from Dutch Jewish art collector Jacques Goudstikker must be returned to his heir, Marei von Saher.  The painting, an 18^th Century work by the name “Portrait of a Lady”, by Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti, is valued at €250,000.  The portrait remained in the hands of the family of Friederich Kadgien, an official in the Nazi regime who fled to Argentina after the Second World War, settling in the coastal city of Mar del Plata.

                On September 8, 2026, a Russian national and web developer who alleged engaged in a transnational cyber-fraud conspiracy responsible for large-scale bank account takeover activity, was arraigned in the United States (U.S.) District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  On November 4, 2025, a grand jury indictment was returned against Sergei Anatolyevich Filimonov, 36, for charges relating to a credential-harvesting and bank fraud operation targeting victims cross the U.S.

                On September 4, 2026, the United States (U.S.) Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unanimously affirmed a district court summary judgment order that authorizes the assessment by the Internal Revenue Service of $2,915,633 in civil penalties for a taxpayer’s willfully failing to report his interest in multiple foreign bank accounts over several years.  The appellate court rejected the taxpayer Richard Rund’s defense that the penalties violated the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.