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.
In late October 2025, police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, launched a complex and deadly operation against the notorious gang, Red Command, targeting Rio’s favelas. The operation is the deadliest raid ever to occur in Rio, leaving over 130 dead.
More than seventy countries signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi on October 26, 2025, when it was opened for signature in Hanoi. Among the signatories were the European Union, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, Brazil, and Nigeria.
On July 24, 2025, and following consultation with Ukraine, forty-one participating States from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) invoked the Moscow Mechanism “on violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarn law (IHL), including possible cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity, related to the treatment of Ukrainian POWs by the Russian Federation.”
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.
