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.
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).
On July 4, 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecution submitted the Document Containing the Charges pursuant to Pre-Trial Chamber I’s order (ICC-01/21-01/25-114). The ICC's charge sheet, which includes several redactions, dates from July but was only made public on September 22.
On October 10, 2025, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss the Trump administration’s recent military strikes on Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean and the implications for regional stability.
On October 2, 2025, Mr. Justice Andrew Baker of the High Court of England and Wales dismissed the Danish Tax Authority (SKAT) case against Sanjay Shah, Solo Capital Partners, and other defendants over alleged fraudulent dividend-tax refunds linked to cum-ex trades.
In late September 2025, the State of Rio de Janeiro initiated an anti-wildlife trafficking operation that rescued over 800 wild animals. The animal rescue mission, known as Operation São Francisco, led to over forty arrest warrants and 270 searches.
On September 9, 2025, the United States (U.S.) District Court for the Eastern District of New York unsealed an indictment charging Ukrainian national Volodymyr Viktorovych Tymoshchuk with serving as an administrator for several global ransomware schemes (malware-enabled extortion that encrypts or steals data and demands payment).
In September 2025, four of the world’s core anti–money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) actors - the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), INTERPOL, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) - released a coordinated package on international cooperation.
On September 8, 2025, at the Regional Security and Justice Summit, the Inter-American Development (IDB) agreed to commit an estimated $2.5 billion in loans for the next three years to fortify citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing actions to promote community protection, fortify institutions, and curb illicit financing.
