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Red Notice Abuse Report

Red Notice Abuse Report is published by NEMETS, a law firm based in Washington, DC.  It covers abuse of INTERPOL’s resources by governments that use INTERPOL to persecute political opponents, entrepreneurs and other victims of unlawful criminal prosecutions.

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Yuriy Nemets

Founder of Red Notice Abuse Report, attorney, Managing member at NEMETS Law Firm (Washington, DC)

Yuriy has been practicing law for over nineteen years.  He has been advising and representing individuals challenging INTERPOL red notices and diffusions since 2013.  He has also testified as an expert witness on the subject.  His articles about INTERPOL abuse and the rights of individuals on the international wanted list are published in authoritative law reviews.  At the request of the United States Helsinki Commission, Yuriy has drafted amendments to INTERPOL’s rules necessary to protect the rights of individuals on the international wanted list and amendments to legislation in the United States to stop the practice of using INTERPOL red notices and diffusions as evidence against individuals in bond and extradition hearings.  Yuriy is a member of a working group on reforming INTERPOL.

Yuriy is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law (JD, LLM) and Moscow State Law Academy (Russia) (LLB, PhD in law). Prior to starting his own practice, he worked at one of the most prominent litigation law firms in the United States (ranked top 30 by Vault Law 100) and one of the most distinguished law firms in Russia.  Yuriy also worked as an in-house counsel at Yukos, one of the world’s largest privately owned energy companies at the time, where he successfully headed the company’s litigation and recoveries department.  He is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia and New York.

In addition to INTERPOL defense and international extradition, Yuriy specializes in domestic and international litigation and arbitration, cross-border investments, international trade, transportation, corporate, banking, intellectual property law, and white collar defense.  In addition to his publications about INTERPOL abuse, Yuriy has authored articles about intellectual property, defamation, and banking law.  Yuriy has given interviews about INTERPOL abuse and the rights of individuals on the international wanted list to media outlets and has been consulted on the topic by scholars and reporters writing for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Sky News, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest and The Journal of Democracy.  He has also spoken on the subject as a panelist at events organized by the American Bar Association and by the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS) as well as at the Texas A&M University School of Law.

Yuriy’s publications about INTERPOL red notice abuse:

• Seeking Asylum While on the INTERPOL Wanted List: The Expert Witness Perspective, International Enforcement Law Reporter Vol. 39, Issue 5 (May 2023)
• INTERPOL Abuse: the 89th General Assembly Meeting in Istanbul this Month Should Finally Open the Door to Reform, Ahval News (November 13, 2021)
• INTERPOL Claims Immunity, Escapes Judicial Review of Lack of Due Process, International Enforcement Law Reporter Blog (June 17, 2021)
• Consideration of INTERPOL Red Notices and Diffusions by U.S. Immigration Courts Suggests a Uniform Approach, International Enforcement Law Reporter Vol. 37, Issue 2 (February 2021)
• No Appeal as of Right and the Need for Due Process: the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files Steps in Again, International Enforcement Law Reporter Blog (December 5, 2020)
• Does Political Unrest Contribute to INTERPOL Abuse? (with Dr. Theodore Bromund), Forbes (July 30, 2019)
• INTERPOL’s Power to Prevent Diffusion Abuse: Legal, Political and Technological Considerations (in response to Dr. Theodore Bromund’s ‘INTERPOL’s Lack of Power to Act Preemptively in Fighting Government Abuse of the Diffusion System’), International Enforcement Law Reporter Vol. 35, Issue 7 (July 2019)
• INTERPOL’s Power to Act Preemptively in Fighting Government Abuse, International Enforcement Law Reporter Vol. 35, Issue 5 (May 2019)
• Denying Authoritarian Regimes INTERPOL Presidency Won’t Stop Them From Using INTERPOL to Persecute Political Opponents; in Fact, it Won’t Even Slow Them Down, International Enforcement Law Reporter Vol. 35, Issue 3 (March 2019)
• INTERPOL Rolls Back Individual Right to Access Information in its Files, Makes it Harder to Fight Abusive Red Notices, International Enforcement Law Reporter Blog (December 13, 2018)
• “INTERPOL Reviewing 40,000 Wanted Notices for Political Abuse” – What’s Behind the Message? International Enforcement Law Reporter Blog (December 27, 2017)
• 86th INTERPOL General Assembly: Mixed Messages for Refugees, International Enforcement Law Reporter Vol. 33, Issue 10 (October 2017)
• INTERPOL’s Mandate: “Case Law” on Requests for Access and Complaints, Novaya Advokatskaya Gazeta 18(251) (September 2017) (Russ.)
• Mass Prosecutions and INTERPOL Red Notice Abuse, International Enforcement Law Reporter Vol. 33, Issue 9 (September 2017)
• INTERPOL Red Notice Abuse: Which Member Countries are the Primary Offenders? International Enforcement Law Reporter Vol. 33, Issue 5 170 (May 2017)
• Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence in the Interpretation and Enforcement of INTERPOL’s Rules Public International Law: Organizations eJournal Vol. 4, No. 12 (March 22, 2017)
• INTERPOL’s Reforms: New Measures Aimed at Protecting the Rights of Individuals on the International Wanted List Novaya Advokatskaya Gazeta 3(236) (February 1-15, 2017) (Russ.)
• INTERPOL’s Mandate: the Rights of Individuals on the International Wanted List Novaya Advokatskaya Gazeta 21(230) (November 1-15, 2016) (Russ.)
• INTERPOL’s New Policy on Refugees: Is Everything Settled? Red Notice Law Journal (September 30, 2016); International, Transnational & Comparative Criminal Law eJournal Vol. 10, Issue 67 (October 5, 2016)

Yuriy’s media appearances:

• Al Jazeera Arabic interviews Yuriy Nemets about INTERPOL Red Notice abuse
  
  
• The Atlantic:  How Russia Persecutes its Dissidents Using U.S. Courts
• Coda Story:  Authoritarian Regimes are Using INTERPOL to Hunt Down Their Critics
• The Diplomat:  Can US Legislation Halt INTERPOL Abuse by Central Asian Autocrats?
• El Pais:  Egypt Asks Spain to Extradite Businessman who Fueled Protests Against Al Sisi
• EU Observer:  Russia Used Interpol ‘loophole’ Against EU Activist
• Forbes:  INTERPOL CCF’s Latest Annual Report Highlights Fundamental Flaws in the System
• The Independent:  Interpol’s New Chief Set to be Russian: ‘Putin Will Attempt His Most Audacious Operation Yet’
• Jyllands-Posten:  Interpol har lukket Syrien ind i varmen igen
• Middle East Eye:  Egyptian Authorities Use INTERPOL to Target Dissidents Abroad
• The New Arab:  Syria Re-added to INTERPOL, Risking Potential for Abuse of Dissidents
• The New Arab: Syrian Regime Participates in INTERPOL General Assembly in Istanbul
• RTP Noticias:  Dissidentes e refugiados em risco. Interpol criticada por permitir regresso da Síria à organização
• Wprost:  Usłużny Czerwony Alert
• Ahval News – Turkey Abroad Podcast: What is the Importance Behind Turkey Hosting INTERPOL Meeting This Year?
• Ahval News – Bipartisan U.S. Legislation Designed to Address INTERPOL Abuse
• Ahval News – Could Proposed U.S. Law End Abuse of INTERPOL Red Notices?
• Ahval News – Reforms Vital for Interpol’s Future – Experts, Victims
• Ahval News – Turkey May Be World’s Most Prolific Abuser of INTERPOL Red Notices

Yuriy’s speaking and teaching engagements on the subject of INTERPOL red notice abuse:

• Panelist, “Latest Developments in INTERPOL’s and its Member Countries’ Approach to Transnational Repression,” American Bar Association (ABA) (July 25, 2023, Washington, DC)
• Panelist, “INTERPOL and Growing Transnational Repression,” American Bar Association (ABA) (July 12, 2022, Washington, DC)
• Panelist, “Abusing INTERPOL’s Resources to Persecute Expatriate Dissidents,” American Bar Association (ABA) (July 15, 2021, Washington, DC)
• Panelist, “Current Developments in INTERPOL Red Notice Abuse,” American Bar Association (ABA) (July 10, 2020, Washington, DC)
• Panelist, “Red Notices and the INTERPOL Wanted List: Balancing Law Enforcement with Due Process,” American Bar Association (ABA) (January 29, 2019, Washington, DC)
• Panelist, “Entrepreneurs on the INTERPOL Wanted List: Balancing Law Enforcement with Due Process,” Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS) (May 8, 2018, Washington, DC)
• Guest lecturer, “International White Collar Crime,” Texas A&M University School of Law (April 10, 2018, Washington, DC)