Interpol is looking for you. What to do? Instructions for the businessman

Interpol is an international criminal police organization. Its task is to coordinate the efforts of member countries in the fight against crime. On its own, Interpol does not conduct investigations, it does not have its own agents, nor does it prepare documents and declare anyone wanted on its own.

Interpol maintains various databases that can be used by law enforcement agencies of the 192 member countries. Each of them has "branches" - the National Central Bureau of Interpol (NCB Interpol).  If you are looking for an interpol law firms to help with a legal matter, you have come to the right place.

We will give you an in-depth knowledge of what Interpol is and how its law firms and lawyers can help you with your legal needs. Law enforcement agencies send documents about criminals to the NCB, where they are reviewed and labeled according to the categories of danger, which are called color corners:

• yellow notice - search for a missing person;
• blue notice - search for the accused/convicted person in order to establish his/her whereabouts;
• The green notice is initiated in respect of persons who have not yet been accused of anything, but who, in the opinion of law enforcement agencies, pose a potential danger. For example, previously convicted persons or active members of criminal organizations;
• Red notice - A search for an accused/convicted person in order to arrest and extradite him/her.

People, whose case is marked red, are immediately detained: the authorities begin to decide on the extradition of the person to the state - the initiator of the search.

How Interpol is used for unscrupulous purposes

The mere fact of being wanted by Interpol is not a sentence. It is possible to avoid being placed in a foreign country's detention center, and to do this you need to interfere in the process as early as possible: to appeal the decision of the investigator to put a person on the wanted list, if possible, to publicize the case through the media and mass media.

It is not uncommon for a criminal case to be fabricated against a Russian entrepreneur for the purpose of raiding his business abroad. Then the authorities of a foreign state seek to restrict the entrepreneur's entry into their territory, threatening criminal prosecution. If a person is lucky and finds out about his/her wanted status on the territory of Russia (it does not extradite its citizens), it is possible to stop the search process in two steps:

1. Make a petition to the Prosecutor General's Office for an extradition check and make sure that the information about you is updated in the database of the Main Information and Analytical Center of the Ministry of Interior (GIAC). Then they will stop looking for you and checking you in Russia.
2. File a complaint with the Interpol Records Control Commission. This is an independent unit of Interpol, and it is it that considers requests for removal of information from the search database.

What an entrepreneur must do when moving to another country

First, finish all disputable cases: unclosed contracts, disputes with business partners, the procedure of liquidation of the company, etc.

Secondly, make sure that you are allowed to enter and stay in a foreign country: ask for an extract from the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and independently study the Interpol website - often the information about persons on the international wanted list is publicly available.

If your name is in the database, appeal the actions of the investigator or prosecutor's office (Article 124 of the CPC) and apply to the court at the place of investigation (Article 125 of the CPC). It often happens that the investigator is too lazy to send a summons for questioning before being declared wanted. This is an argument in favor of the illegality of your prosecution.