This week, Max Hill QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, issued a stark warning, that a ‘no-deal’ Brexit will make extraditions take longer and become more expensive. If the UK does not manage to leave the EU with a deal, instead of using the harmonised European Arrest Warrant (EAW) system, the UK may have to […]
On 16th November 2018, the High Court concluded that the third assurance provided by the Government of India as to the conditions in which Mr Chawla would be imprisoned upon his extradition to India, were sufficient to show that there would be no real risk that he would be subjected to in human or degrading […]
Today, South Korea’s Kim Jong-yang has been elected as INTERPOL’s next President, replacing Meng Hongwei who resigned last month after he was detained in China on charges of bribery and corruption. Under INTERPOL’s constitution, the role of the President is to: preside at meetings of the General Assembly and the Executive Committee and direct the […]
On Monday, the Irish High Court ordered the surrender of Artur Celmer to face trial in Poland. As reported in a previous blog, Mr Celmer is wanted by Polish authorities to face trial on charges of drug trafficking. Last year, he was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) in Ireland. He resisted extradition on […]
The Macedonian government has reportedly filed an extradition request for its former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. Mr Gruevski is currently residing in Hungary and has reportedly been granted asylum there. Mr Gruevski was Prime Minister of Macedonia from 2006 until 2016. In May 2018, a Macedonian court sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment for unlawfully […]
Yesterday, police chiefs from around the world met in Dubai to elect the new President of INTERPOL. The previous President, Meng Hongwei, resigned last month after he was arrested in China on corruption charges. Last week, South Africa added their candidate, Anbuen Scott Naidoo, into the running. Brigadier Anbuen Scott Naidoo was previously appointed to […]
INTERPOL has renewed a Red Notice against the head of Hungarian energy group, MOL. The Red Notice request was issued by the Croatian judicial authorities who have indicted MOL’s Chief Executive, Zsolt Hernadi, on allegations of bribery. It is alleged that Mr Hernadi paid bribes to the former Croatian Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader, in order […]
Turkish preacher, Fethullah Gulen is accused by the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of orchestrating a failed coup attempt in 2016. It was reported last week that the White House was studying the legal ramifications of extraditing Mr Gulen, who currently resides in Pennsylvania, as part of an effort to persuade Turkey to stop putting […]
This week, the extradition hearing of Taimoor Zaman and Anthony Nnamdi Okeakpu is being heard at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. The US has requested the extradition of Mr Zaman and Mr Okeakpu who are accused of helping to run a hacking organisation known as ‘Infraud Hacking Group’ (IHG), said to be the group behind […]
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that several of the arrests between 2012 and 2014 of the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, for protesting against President Vladimir Putin, were politically motivated. In relation to the arrests examined by the court, Mr Navalny spent a total of 15 days in jail and had […]
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