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 November 12, 2025, Austrian prosecutors indicted two former Syrian officials with serious crimes. The charges concern their roles in suppressing the Arab Spring uprising from 2011 to 2013 against Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa.
On October 8, the High Court of Australia issued a ruling entitled CD v. Commonwealth of Australia that validated legislation rapidly adopted by the Parliament to remove evidentiary obstacles to the prosecution of drug dealers and other alleged criminals who had been caught in a massive international “sting” using the so-called “AN0M” technology, known in Australia as Operation Ironside.
On November 2, the Netherlands’ Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced during talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo that the Dutch government would return a Pharaoh-era sculpture to Egypt, determined to have been illegally looted.
On November 10, 2025, Thailand’s Appeals Court ordered the extradition of She Zhijiang, a Chinese-Cambodian businessman accused of running one of Asia’s largest illegal online gambling and cybercrime networks. The decision affirms an earlier ruling by the nation’s Criminal Court and requires Zhijiang’s deportation to China within ninety days.
In a multi-national joint operation, Spanish authorities dismantled one of the “branches” of Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación) (CJNG) operating in their territory.
On November 4, 2025, United States (U.S.) law enforcement announced that French authorities extradited Yana Leonova, 33, a Belarusian national living in Russia, on an indictment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, charging her with smuggling, money laundering, and fraud.
On September 29, the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced eleven members of a family-run crime syndicate to death without reprieve on charges including cyberscamming, gambling, and human trafficking. This trial is part of a larger effort by the Chinese government to address the massive cyberscamming operations, usually run by cross-border syndicates, which are currently plaguing the region.
On November 14, four United States (U.S.) nationals and a Ukrainian identity broker pleaded guilty to participating in remote information technology (IT) work and virtual currency heist schemes on behalf of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea).
The Mexican government was credited with hindering and, in fact, preventing an Iranian-directed plot to kill the Israeli Ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz-Neiger, as part of a wider attack on Israeli and American interests in the region.
The Council of Europe (CoE) was the one international organization that reacted immediately to the Russian Federation’s ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine in February 2022, regarding it as aggression by one Member State (Russia) against another (Ukraine).
