INTERPOL Red Notices in Georgia

A criminal lawyer to guide you through the next steps

If you have been told that an INTERPOL Red Notice concerns you or a family member, the first questions are often personal: can you travel, could you be detained, and who can help? Our criminal lawyers in Tbilisi can review your situation, explain the Georgian proceedings and help prepare a challenge to INTERPOL data where there are grounds to do so.

You may already have a foreign arrest warrant, a court decision or a document issued after an airport stop. You may only have a warning from a lawyer abroad. Tell us what you know. We can help identify the documents needed, check what is happening in Georgia and coordinate with counsel in the country seeking your arrest.

What does an INTERPOL Red Notice mean?

A Red Notice asks police internationally to find a person and provisionally arrest them for extradition, surrender or a comparable legal process. It relies on a warrant or court order from the country requesting it. A Red Notice is not an international arrest warrant. Whether an arrest can take place depends on the law of the country where the person is found.

It can concern a person sought for prosecution or someone wanted to serve a sentence. Being named in a Red Notice does not, by itself, establish guilt. The underlying case and the reasons for the international alert need to be examined separately.

Most INTERPOL notices are not public. A search of the public wanted-persons website therefore cannot establish that there is no record concerning you. A diffusion, circulated by a country’s National Central Bureau, is another form of international police cooperation that may also need to be examined.

Can you be arrested in Georgia?

Yes, where the requirements of Georgian law are met. Article 30 of Georgia’s Law on International Cooperation in Criminal Matters provides for arrest on appropriate grounds when there is an extradition request, a request for temporary detention or international wanted status.

A criminal lawyer in Georgia can examine the grounds for the arrest, the foreign warrant and supporting information, and the court proceedings concerning detention. Questions about identity, the alleged offence, the status of the foreign case and any applicable grounds against extradition need attention early.

If you are considering consent to a simplified extradition procedure, discuss its consequences with your lawyer first. Under the Georgian law, consent given at the relevant court hearing is final and cannot be withdrawn. Read more about extradition proceedings in Georgia →

Checking or challenging information held by INTERPOL

The CCF considers requests about personal information processed in INTERPOL’s systems. An access request seeks information about data concerning you. A correction request addresses inaccurate information. A deletion request asks for data to be removed when its processing does not comply with INTERPOL’s rules.

Since 26 March 2026, ordinary new requests must be made through the CCF’s secure online portal. The application is based on written explanations and supporting documents. Clear identification, an authorised representative where one is appointed, and a well-organised account of the relevant facts help the CCF understand what you are asking it to examine.

Depending on the case, a challenge may concern mistaken identity, incorrect or outdated judicial information, the purpose of the alert, human-rights concerns or a predominantly political, military, religious or racial character. A withdrawal, acquittal or other development in the foreign case may also be relevant. Each argument needs evidence showing how it affects compliance with INTERPOL’s rules.

The CCF decides questions about INTERPOL data; it does not decide guilt or extradition. Filing a request should not be treated as permission to travel or as a substitute for legal representation in Georgia. Your lawyer should address any detention or extradition proceedings alongside the data request.

What to prepare for a first consultation

You can contact us before you have assembled a complete file. Start with the person’s name, current location, the country requesting their arrest and the next known hearing or deadline. If available, the following documents will help:

• Identity details: passport information, citizenship, date of birth and different spellings of the name used in official documents.
• Foreign case documents: the warrant, charges, judgment, case number and contact details of any lawyer already involved.
• Recent decisions: court rulings, withdrawal or dismissal documents, earlier extradition decisions and correspondence from INTERPOL or the CCF.
• Documents from Georgia: an arrest or border record, court papers and information about the authority dealing with the matter.

Tell us which documents you have. We will discuss an appropriate way to share sensitive files and explain which translations or additional records are needed. A short chronology is often more useful at the start than an unstructured collection of attachments.

Questions clients ask about Red Notices