There was no explanation for the delay in requesting the arrest of Mr. Tafur-Dominguez, who had visited his homeland during the end of December.
Investigators also requested the arrest of Giancarlo Galan, the former governor of the Veneto region, who is accused of taking bribes and having a property refurbished for free by a contractor.
In August, Ibama, the federal government's environmental and forestry agency, charged and requested the arrest of José Dias Pereira, a farmer who destroyed roughly 20 million trees in Terra do Meio.
In other developments on Thursday, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague asked Interpol to circulate a notice requesting the arrest of Colonel Qaddafi, as well as one of his sons, Seif al-Islam Qaddafi and his former intelligence chief, Abdulla al-Senussi.
Thirty-three Ben Ali or Trabelsi family members have been arrested and Tunisian authorities have requested the arrest of Mr Ben Ali and six other fugitives through the international police agency, Interpol.
Interpol has cancelled a request for the arrest of Mr Banda's son for lack of evidence.
The Swedish prosecutor's office said almost two weeks ago that a court in Stockholm had approved its request for the arrest of Mr. Assange to face questioning on suspicion of "rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion" — charges that he has strongly denied and that WikiLeaks has dismissed as "dirty tricks" meant to punish him for his organization's work.
In 2012, the Prosecutor's Office request for the arrest of Srđan Golubović was fulfilled in Belgrade.
"AMIA Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman called the Ambassador on May 23 to apologize for not giving the Embassy advance notice of his request for the arrest of former President Menem and other [government of Argentina] officials for their alleged roles in the cover up of the 'local connection' in the 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center," says a cable from May 2008.
The Seoul Central District Court granted prosecutors' request for the arrest of Ahn Jong-beom, Park's former senior secretary for policy coordination who is suspected of pressuring companies into making large donations to nonprofit organizations controlled by Park's friend, court spokesman Shin Jae-hwan said. .
