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 21, 2023, U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen sentenced Mark Gyetvay to 86 months in prison after a jury in March found him guilty of crimes arising out of hiding millions of dollars in undisclosed Swiss bank accounts and submitting a false filing with the IRS.
On September 26, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights – Grand Chamber (Court) delivered a judgment in the case of Yüksel Yalçınkaya v. Türkiye (application no. 15669/20).
On September 26, 2023, prosecutors in the Barcelona financial crimes unit released new details alleging Shakira defrauded the Spanish Treasury of approximately $6.4 million in 2018, when she resided in Spain through a “network of businesses” to transfer her music rights to companies.
On August 2, 2023, an Edinburgh court ruled that Nicholas Rossi, a convicted sex offender who faked his own death, can be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States to face sexual assault charges in Utah.
On September 14, 2023, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of Treasury issued a press release that Paul Andrew Goldfinch, a New Zealand citizen living in the United Arab Emirates and Russia, was removed from the Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN).
On September 15, 2023, Mexican authorities extradited Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33, of Culiacan, Mexico. A federal court in Chicago arraigned the oldest son of former drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, on September 18. Mexican authorities arrested Guzman Lopez in January pursuant to a U.S. request for his provisional arrest with a view toward extradition.
On September 5, 2023, the media reported that a German court has denied the extradition request of the United Kingdom of an Albanian man who lived in the UK due to concerns about prison conditions in Britain. On September 6, 2023, the Irish High Court denied extradition to Scotland due to concerns about prison conditions.
On September 13, 2023, the European Parliament decided to adopt several amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure with a view to strengthening integrity, independence and accountability.
On September 14, 2023, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the regulation of prostitution in the European Union. The resolution concentrates on cross-border implications of this phenomenon as well as its impact on gender equality and women’s rights.
On July 18, 2023, the Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions held a hearing entitled “Potential Consequences of FinCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Rulemaking”. The testimony unanimously underscored serious gaps in the rulemaking for the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The Beneficial Ownership Information reporting element of the CTA is scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2024.
