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 December 9, an Austrian appellate court denied the extradition request for Ukrainian tycoon Dmytro Firtash on bribery charges. The United States (U.S.) government requested his extradition on charges that he paid bribes to officials in India to obtain titanium mining licenses in 2006.
On December 16, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion that the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is within the authority of Congress to regulate interstate commerce and does not facially violate the Fourth amendment. The opinion reverses a March 2024 lower court decision in NSBU v. U.S. Department of the Treasury in favor of a small business advisory group.
On December 9, 2025, the United States Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announced that the Office of International Affairs (OIA), with help from the DOJ’s Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), transferred fourteen Mexican nationals on December 5 to Mexican authorities pursuant to the International Prisoner Transfer Treaty between the U.S. and Mexico. Each person was serving a federal sentence in the U.S. for drug-distribution offenses, illegal firearms offenses, or both.
On November 3, 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced investigations into crimes allegedly committed in Darfur since the outbreak of hostilities in April 2023.
On December 4, 2025, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) announced that twenty-six countries and jurisdictions intend to implement the new international framework for the automatic exchange of information on international real estate.
On November 20, 2025, Alice Leal Guo, the first-ever female mayor of Bamban — a Philippine city a little over 100 miles north of Manila — was sentenced to life in prison after a Philippine court convicted her of human trafficking stemming from her involvement with online scam centers.
On November 25, 2025, the European Parliament adopted its legislative resolution on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) whereby it approved the Council position at first reading.
On October 31, 2025, the Guyana Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and Special Branch of the Guyana Police Force arrested prominent Guyanese businessmen Azruddin Mohamed and his father, Nazar Mohamed, on extradition warrants from the United States (U.S.).
On November 17, the exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, was handed a death sentence after being convicted of crimes against humanity. In a trial conducted in absentia, a panel of three judges reviewed the case at the International Crimes Tribunal (‘ICT’ or ‘the Court’), the national domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh.
In November 2025, Spanish authorities arrested Wilmer Chavarria in Malaga, Spain, in coordination with Ecuadorian law enforcement.
