Sanctions and Interpol

Sanctions and Interpol

Individual targeted sanctions are punitive measures applied by governments against foreign individuals who have committed human rights abuses or corruption abroad. Designated individuals may be subject to asset freezing, visa bans, and exclusion from using the financial system. Sanctions targeting individual (rather than entire states) have become an increasingly popular tool for Western Governments.

US Global Magnitsky Act:

Global Diligence has filed applications under the Global Magnitsky Act in relation to human rights abuses and mass corruption relating to multiple individuals.

Asset Tracing:

The US Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act - and other similar regimes - provide for sanctions against assets held by designated individuals. GD’s works with investigators to identify assets, business interests, and country connections of the persons targeted in our sanction applications. We use mainly open-source information and subscription databases. The process involves identifying, examining and then cross-referencing land records, corporate filings, court documents, stock exchange filings, voter rolls, telephone and address directories across multiple jurisdictions. Deep searches of social media are also used to identify familial and business connections, travel patterns and social ties, all of which play a key role in identifying assets and connections.

US Treasury Sanctions:

Global Diligence has defended persons subject to US Treasury sanctions, notably the main opposition leader of Burundi.

Interpol Red Notices:

The Interpol system is open to abuse. Corrupt or autocratic governments regularly seek to use Interpol ‘Red Notices’ as a means of harassing or silencing dissident voices. Equally, genuine international arrests warrants may be blocked through false claims of politically motivated prosecutions.

On behalf of its international clients, Global Diligence has considerable experience exposing the politicisation or other misuse of the Interpol system.