A Brazilian judge has issued an arrest warrant for former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes, along with 20 others, as part of an investigation into money laundering. Mr Cartes stands accused of providing USD500,000 to a criminal organisation at the request of his associate Dario Messer, who at the time was a fugitive from the law […]
Swedish prosecutors announced yesterday, 19 November that they have dropped the investigation into sexual offences allegedly committed by Julian Assange. The Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Eva-Marie Person, cited the weakening of evidence over the protracted investigative period as the reason for the decision. Notwithstanding the decision, Ms Persson made clear in her statement that […]
US authorities have made a formal request to the UK for the extradition of Mike Lynch in connection with the sale of software company Autonomy to Hewlett Packard in 2011. Mr Lynch is alleged to have manipulated Autonomy’s financial reports in order to inflate the apparent value of the company before its sale and faces […]
Following the reversal of a Spanish court’s decision to refuse the extradite Major General Hugo Carvajal to the US on charges of drug trafficking, authorities have been unable to locate him. On 16 September 2019 Spain’s highest criminal court (“Audiencia National”) rejected the US request, declaring it to be politically motivated, and ordered his release. […]
Eamon Harrison, a 22 year old lorry driver for Northern Ireland has appeared in court facing extradition to the UK from the Republic of Ireland on charges of manslaughter, conspiracy to commit human trafficking and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who were discovered in a lorry […]
On Sunday, Israel’s High Court of Justice rejected the request of Alexei Burkov to be extradited to Russia or in the alternative to be tried in the US but to serve the remainder of his sentence there, instead ordering his extradition to the US to stand trial on charges of cyber fraud. Mr Burkov’s case […]
Sources familiar with the proceedings in Spain have told the Associated Press that the Spanish National Court on Friday reversed, on appeal, the decision to discharge Major General Hugo Carvajal and ordered his extradition to the US. Maj. Gen. Carvajal, who served as military intelligence chief for several years under Hugo Chávez, the former Venezuelan […]
Turkey’s Deputy Interior Minister İsmail Çatakli this week criticised INTERPOL for rejecting 646 Red Notice requests made by Turkey, since the failed coup attempt of 2016. The allegation was first reported by state-run news agency Anadolu. Deputy Minister Çatakli accused INTERPOL of “cherry-pick[ing] requests” and of failing to support Tukey in the fight against terror. […]
Former Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, and former Catalan politician and scholar, Clara Ponsati, are fighting renewed Spanish extradition requests to Belgium and Scotland respectively. The renewed warrants were issued last month by the Spanish Supreme Court following the conviction of several other Catalan separatist leaders in the Spanish Supreme Court. Mr Puigdemont is wanted in […]
Background facts The appellant appealed against an order for his extradition to Hungary made on 19 January 2018. The appeal had been delayed in order to allow cases dealing with prison conditions in Hungary to be heard in the High Court. That ground of appeal remained stayed until after the judgment of the Divisional Court […]
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