He then spent two months under curfew before a Bulgarian court threw out the case on the grounds that it was politically motivated. Fair Trials said Interpol had been able to give it no explanation as to why the warrant was circulated in the first place, nor could it explain why it had not been lifted after Mr Radkovich had previously been detained on it in Italy six months before. Fair trials suspects that often the notices simply linger in police databases once they are inputted, leaving their subjects facing the risk of arrest for years to come.