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 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).
On November 5, an international law enforcement operation involving Eurojust and the United States (U.S.) resulted in the arrest of eighteen suspects. The detained individuals are charged with establishing a scheme of fake online subscriptions to dating, pornography, and streaming services, for which credit cards were used to pay.
Zhi Dong Zhang, a Chinese national and Mexican citizen with various aliases, such as “El Chino” and “Brother Wang,” has been extradited into United States (U.S.) custody after his arrest and detention by Cuban authorities.
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.”
