Advocate
Dmytro Konovalenko
Service:
Removal of Interpol Red Notice
According to Interpol statistics, every year, based on the results of the inspection of compliance with Interpol rules, decisions are made to remove red notices as those that contradict the rules of the international police organization. Lawyers also repeatedly face issues of transparency and compliance with Interpol rules when providing legal assistance to clients. A striking example from the practice of international lawyers can be called the international search in Kyrgyzstan, where quite a few cases of unjustified persecution of individuals were established (often such cases concern political persecution).
Features of international search
Our company’s client was one of the local entrepreneurs, whose business became the target of business competitors. The main lever of pressure in the redistribution of property, or business showdowns, is usually criminal prosecution, which contributes to the seizure of property and the arrest of business opponents. In our case, the client was accused of attempted murder in order to put the businessman on the wanted list in Kyrgyzstan, and then involve Interpol channels. As a result, the client was arrested in absentia and soon a red Interpol card was issued. International lawyers carefully analyzed all the case materials and, during the verification of which, we managed to understand that we are talking about a completely different person. Thus, the information registered in the Interpol information system is not related to the actions of our client, but concerns a completely different person.
However, the difficulty was that the businessman’s ill-wishers entered information regarding the details of the crime committed, indicating that the client was the organizer, and accordingly, all the actions of the accomplices were automatically imputed to the businessman. In order to exclude the possibility of the client’s involvement in the crime, we had to lay out in detail all the circumstances of the case (the time and place of the crime, the method of committing the crime, the motive, as well as information in the media regarding the details of the attempted murder), which allowed us to demonstrate reasonable doubt about the businessman’s real involvement in the crime.
The crime of which our client was suspected and accused was quite resonant in Kyrgyzstan, it was repeatedly mentioned in the media. Therefore, immediate intervention from our team of lawyers was required.
The Commission’s Decision
A team of experienced lawyers carefully studied all the details of this case in order to establish several important nuances:
Our client has nothing to do with this situation and could not have anything to do with it. After all, the attempted murder was not planned. This is indicated by the situation, which no one could have predicted, the spontaneity of the decision taken by the real suspect, which means that there can be no talk of any conspiracy between several people. At the time of the crime, our client was not a potential participant. The case concerns political aspects. We managed to find out that it included the names of people who were actively involved in political movements organized at that time in Kyrgyzstan.
Thus, the search in Kyrgyzstan was immediately terminated. Our lawyers pointed out a number of violations related to the illegal use of Interpol tools, regarding the publication of a red notice in relation to our client. Based on the compelling arguments of the international lawyer, the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files (CCF) decided to immediately remove the red notice and all information about our client from the Interpol database.
