On 15th November 2018, the Libyan Prime Minister stated that he expects that Hashem Abedi will be extradited from Libya to the UK by the end of the year. The Libyan Prime Minister said: “I think from here to the end of this year we will finish all the legal procedure in Libya. We are […]
The UK authorities have agreed to extradite, Canadian national, David Roach to Singapore to face trial for robbery on the condition that he will not be caned if he is found guilty. Mr Roach is accused of robbing the Holland Village branch of Standard Chartered bank in Singapore on 7th July 2016. After the alleged […]
Daniel Mullan had just served a term of imprisonment for child sexual assault and child pornography convictions in Ireland, when he was arrested for further child sex offences that he allegedly committed in New York. The US authorities have requested Mr Mullan’s extradition for child sex offences, but this week Mr Mullan applied for a […]
In January 2007, Thomas O’Connor was convicted of defrauding HMRC at Blackfriars’ Crown Court. He absconded from his sentencing hearing and was sentenced, in his absence, to 4 years and 6 months in custody. In 2009, Mr O’Connor had returned to Ireland, where he was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW). The Irish High […]
Today, Southwark Crown Court granted conditional bail to Andreas Hauschild. He will be remanded on bail until his EURIBOR rigging trial takes place in January 2019. Mr Hauschild is accused of conspiring to rig EURIBOR, a currency benchmark that underlies billions of pounds worth of financial transactions. Today, the judge at Southwark Crown Court granted […]
Last week, a Chinese Intelligence officer was extradited to the US to face economic espionage charges. Mr Yanjun Xu was arrested in Belgium last spring, after he travelled to Belgium from China. On 10th October 2018, Mr Xu appeared before the Federal Court in Cincinnati to face charges of conspiring and attempting to commit economic […]
Mr Vinay Mittal is wanted in India for a number of alleged bank frauds to the value of approximately Rs 40 crore (£4.4m). In India, a criminal case was registered against Mr Mittal in 2014, and a further case in 2016, on the request of Corporation Bank and the Punjab National Bank. The CBI has […]
El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey were raised in Britain and are now alleged to have been part of an ISIS terror cell, known as “the Beatles.” The terror cell was responsible for the beheadings of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. El Sheikh and […]
On 18th September 2018, the Spanish High Court in Madrid, rejected a second extradition request from Switzerland for Herve Falciani. Mr Falciani was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment after being convicted of obtaining data illegally and of breaching bank secrecy laws, a crime in Switzerland known as ‘aggravated financial espionage.’ You can find our previous […]
On 12th September 2018, Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot, the Chief Magistrate, heard closing submissions in Dr Vijay Mallya’s extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The Indian authorities have requested the extradition of Dr Mallya to face criminal charges in relation to allegedly fraudulent loan applications that he made on behalf of his, company Kingfisher […]
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