The International Enforcement Law Reporter is a monthly print and online journal covering news and trends in international enforcement law.
Since September 1985, the International Enforcement Law Reporter has analyzed the premier developments in both the substantive and procedural aspects of international enforcement law. Read by practitioners, academics, and politicians, the IELR is a valuable guide to the difficult and dynamic field of international law.
Recent tensions between the United States (U.S.) and Colombia have led to sanctions imposed on Colombian President Gustavo Petro and the statement by U.S. President Donald J. Trump that the U.S. government would cease aid drug control payments to Colombia even though the aid cut will hinder counternarcotics efforts in the region.
On October 21, 2025, the National High Court of Spain found Ukrainian Vitaly Vanshelboim, former director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), extraditable to the United States (U.S.) on accusations of accepting bribes in exchange for diverting close to $60 million in grants connected with a British businessman.
On October 17, 2025, a federal jury in New York awarded close to $21 million against BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, for providing the Sudanese government access to the United States’ (U.S.) financial system as Sudan perpetrated atrocities during the dictatorship of former President Omar al-Bashir from 2002 to 2008.
On October 6, 2025, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was unanimously convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC or ‘the Court’).
At its 1541st meeting, on October 22, 2025, the Committee of Ministers approved the draft Convention establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine. The ministers decided to adopt and open for signature on the occasion of a Diplomatic Conference to be held in The Hague (Netherlands) on December 15 and 16, 2025.
On October 14, 2025, the United States (U.S.) Office for the Eastern District of New York unsealed an indictment charging Cambodian national Chen “Vincent” Zhi, the founder and chairman of the multinational business conglomerate Prince Holding Group (Prince Group), with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy for managing the Prince Group’s operation of forced-labor scam compounds across Cambodia.
On October 9, 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) released Report on Tackling ML/TF Risks in Crypto-Asset Services Through Supervision: Lessons Learned from Recent Cases.
On September 28, 2025, the United States (U.S.) government and the Taliban confirmed the release of Amir Amiri, a U.S. citizen who had been held in detention since December 2024, marking a rare moment of cooperation between the two governments.
On September 23, 2025, the Hague held its Annual European Police Chiefs Convention (“the Convention”), drawing hundreds of senior law enforcement officials from across Europe. The various heads of the national police, customs administrations, and other European Union (EU) partners convened to discuss the state of the EU’s security apparatus and the threats it faces.
On September 29, 2025 the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an Interim Final Rule known as the “Affiliates Rule” amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to significantly expand the scope of applicable export restrictions to entities that are 50 percent or more owned by one or more entities on the Entity List (Supplement No. 4 to Part 744), the “military end-users” list (MEU List) (Supplement No. 7 to Part 744), and to certain persons designated on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Parties List (SDN List) pursuant to § 744.8(a)(1).
