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 July 24, 2023, after a forfeiture hearing at Southwark Crown Court in London, Judge David Tomlinson ordered James Ibori, former governor of Delta State in Nigeria, to repay more than £101.5 million.
On August 6, 2023, the Australian Government announced an initiative against tax advisers in the wake of the PwC tax leaks scandal.
On August 2, 2023, four Guatemalan nationals pleaded guilty to their participation in a Guatemalan-based human smuggling conspiracy involving a large number of migrants from Guatemala through Mexico to the United States.
On June 21st, 2023, The Higher Regional Court of Koblenz in Germany convicted a German national of aiding and abetting genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the enslavement and abuse of the co-plaintiff, a Yazidi woman from Iraq beginning April of 2016.
On July 28, 2023, a U.S. grand jury in the Southern District of Texas returned a superseding indictment charging four defendants with conspiracy to launder money.
On July 26, 2023, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security announced the Brazilian government has preliminarily denied a request from the U.S. to extradite alleged Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov.
On July 13, 2023, the European Parliament (EP) adopted a resolution setting up a number of recommendations on the reform of the European Parliament’s rules on transparency, integrity, accountability, and anti-corruption. The resolution was adopted with 441 votes in favor, 70 against, and 71 abstentions.
On March 16, 2023, the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) Authorization Act was introduced in both the U.S. Senate (S. 841) and the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 1802) to continue and expand efforts to improve Caribbean security and enforcement.
Jersey recently announced the successful conclusion of a 10-year asset recovery case against an Indonesian company director convicted of fraud, embezzlement and money laundering, and which involved a luxury apartment in Singapore held through a Jersey trust. H.M. Attorney General of Jersey, Mark Temple KC, won all three appeals at the highest appellate level and is currently negotiating with the Indonesian authorities regarding the return of the funds, minus costs.[1]
On July 19, 2023, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated as Specially Designated nationals (SDNs) for international drug trafficking, including cocaine and fentanyl. The persons designated are allegedly involved in the importation and distribution of narcotics destined for U.S. and European markets. [1]
