The questions people ask before they write.
Not what a Red Notice is — the blog covers that, in depth. These are the questions about me and about working with me: who I am, how I work, what it costs, and what happens to what you tell me.
Ask a questionAre you a lawyer?
No — and in this field that is an advantage, not an apology. Nothing before the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL's Files happens in a courtroom: there is no hearing and no cross-examination. The Commission decides on paper, testing a file against INTERPOL's own rules, and its own guide for applicants says that a representative need not be a lawyer. What the work rewards is the disciplined handling of documents and evidence, and the skill to build a file that survives scrutiny. That is my profession: I am a chartered accountant and a former chief financial officer — and I have carried a Red Notice myself, so I know the rules from both sides of the table.
What does a chartered accountant bring to this?
An auditor's habits. Deletion is an audit, not a trial: the CCF does not decide whether you did it, it decides whether INTERPOL kept its own rules — and an audit tests a claim against a rule and the evidence, which is exactly what a strong deletion request does. Years of Big Four audit, financial reporting and a CFO's desk taught me to find the document that matters, to say precisely what it proves and no more, and to present work that an independent reader can check line by line. Those are the habits that get a file through.
Why are you based in Greece, and does it matter where I am?
It does not matter where you are — and in this field it rarely can. A Red Notice subject often cannot travel safely: a border crossing may mean an arrest, so the person who helps you is, almost inevitably, someone you work with remotely, whoever they are and wherever they sit. I work with INTERPOL subjects wherever in the world they are — by phone or video call if you prefer to talk things through, or by Signal and encrypted email if you prefer to write. As for Greece: it is my home, and it is a member state of the European Union and of the Council of Europe, bound by the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Its authorities examined the extradition request made against me, and refused it. That is the kind of lawful, rights-respecting country I am glad to work from.
How do you keep the file to ten pages and twenty appendices?
By doing the hard part, which is leaving things out. Since March 2026 the Commission's portal allows a summary of arguments of no more than ten pages and no more than twenty appendices (Rule 30(8) of the CCF Operating Rules). Most matters arrive with hundreds of documents and years of history; the work is to decide which rule each fact engages, which single document proves it, and what can be discarded without weakening the file. Every sentence that survives carries its exhibit, and every exhibit earns its place. Compression is harder than length — and it is precisely what the fees buy. Why the limits changed everything is in the ten-page rule.
Can you also handle diffusions, access requests or a post-decision matter?
Yes. Deletion requests are the core of this consultancy, but the same rules and the same discipline apply across the board: access requests, to find out what INTERPOL holds; correction requests; diffusions — the alert that is never published and that stops people at borders without their ever seeing it; combined and sequenced requests; preventive work where a notice is foreseeable but does not yet exist; and, after a decision, applications for revision, re-uploads and monitoring. The Services page sets each of them out.
Do you work with my existing lawyer?
Gladly — and that may be the right arrangement. I handle the file that goes to INTERPOL's Commission, which is rules-based.
How long will my case take?
My side of that clock: because INTERPOL's timelines are long, I aim to file as quickly as the case allows — but never at the expense of quality. Filing a weak request early is the most expensive mistake in this field, so the focus is always on the strongest submission that can be made. Once a filing is submitted to INTERPOL, their timelines kick in. The Commission's own targets are four months for an access request and nine months for a deletion decision, counted from admissibility; in 2024, 70% of access requests and 30% of deletion decisions overran them. The live numbers are on the CCF Tracker.
Why is your pricing published when nobody else's is?
Because secrecy around fees is part of what is wrong with this field. INTERPOL's own Commission charges nothing — there is no filing fee — yet almost nobody who offers help publishes a price, and the quotes that reach people can be extraordinary: when my own notice appeared, one firm quoted me fees in excess of US$300,000. This site is built on three words — open, honest, transparent — and the pricing page says exactly what things cost: a free assessment; a US$600 case review and grounds memo, credited in full against the project fee; then one fixed fee for each component of the project, quoted in writing before anything begins. No hourly meter, no surprises.
Will anyone ever know I contacted you?
Not from me. I never confirm to any third party that you have contacted or engaged me — not to an employer, not to a journalist, not to anyone — unless the law compels me or you instruct me in writing. The site itself keeps no trace: no cookies, no analytics, no trackers; the contact form sends your message straight to an encrypted mailbox and stores nothing on a web server. You can write under any name, or none, and stay that way through the free assessment; a name is needed only from the first fee, for a sanctions check, and identity documents only from the project fee. The Privacy Policy says all of this in full.