Last week, Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot, the Chief Magistrate, decided that Dr Vijay Mallya could be extradited to India. You can read our coverage of that decision here. It has now been confirmed by Dr Mallya’s legal team that a notice of appeal against that decision will be served at the High Court. Until […]
The internet entrepreneur known as Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz, and three of his ex-colleagues (Mathias Ortmann, Bran van der Kolk and Finn Botato) will now have their extradition appeals heard in the New Zealand Supreme Court. The four men were originally arrested, in 2012, during a police raid in Auckland. They have been charged, […]
On 19th December 2018, the Greek Supreme Court ordered the extradition of Alexander Vinnik to France despite competing extradition requests from Russia and the US. Mr Vinnik was originally arrested, in July 2017, after the US requested his extradition to face charges of laundering more than $4 billion on a bitcoin trading platform. French authorities […]
Today, 10th December 2018, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot, the Chief Magistrate, ruled that Dr Vijay Mallya could be extradited to India and that his case should now be sent to the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, for a decision whether to order extradition. You can find the judgement here. The SDJ […]
On 8th December 2018, the President of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, revealed that the PNA has provided INTERPOL with the names of more than 100 Palestinians which it would like extradited for their role in suspected financial corruption. At the time, President Abbas was speaking at a […]
Yesterday, 4th December 2018, British national, Christian James Michel was extradited to India from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mr Michel is accused by Indian authorities of acting as the middleman in an Indian helicopter bribery scandal. He appeared before a special court in India and was ordered to spend the next 5 days in […]
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