Last Friday, 21 April 2023, Michael Lynch, co-founder of the technology companies Autonomy and Darktrace, was refused permission to appeal his extradition to the USA. He is charged with “one of the largest frauds ever prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice” relating to the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett Packard [HP] in […]
The UK has agreed a treaty with INTERPOL, granting the organisation and its officials privileges and immunity from legal proceedings, in order to facilitate the organisation’s functions in Britain. The treaty closely resembles the headquarters agreement signed between INTERPOL and France in 2008, carving out privileges, such as immunity from legal proceedings, inviolability of official […]
Turkey is once again jeopardising Swedish accession to NATO over extradition of individuals linked to the Gülen movement from Sweden. On Wednesday Hulusi Akar, the Turkish defence minister stated that “There are commitments signed by Sweden and Finland … they must be fulfilled … the memorandum is a beginning, not an end. After these are […]
The Council of the European Union has taken a step towards digitalisation of legal procedures throughout the European community, with proposals agreed in December. This forms part of the EU’s ongoing, post-Covid, project to transition many of the Union’s processes online. As regards the digitalisation of legal matters, the Council has noted the increasing use […]
INTERPOL has decided to establish an Expert Working Group to assess various proposals devoted to the exchange of financial information and to the tracing and recovery of criminal assets. This group will consider various proposals including reviving the concept of a “Silver Notice” devoted to the tracing and recovery of criminal assets. The idea of […]
On 4 November 2022 Mrs Justice Joanna Smith handed down a judgement in the case of the FCA v Konstantinos Papadimitrakopoulos & Dimitris Gryparis clarifying and further restricting the use to which evidence obtained from an overseas authority may be put outside of that agreed with the foreign authority. As a former Head of the […]
Following ratification by the US Congress, the Data Access Agreement between the US and UK will enter into force on the 3 October 2022. Originally signed on 3 October 2019, the provisions of the agreement will now take effect three years later. Under the agreement, investigators in each country will be able to obtain electronic […]
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened that Turkey may still block Swedish membership of NATO following reports of a Swedish Supreme Court decision blocking the extradition of Yilmaz Aytan. Aytan, who ran a school in Afghansitan founded by the Gülen movement, has had permanent residency in Sweden since 2018. He requested asylum following […]
Turkey has renewed efforts to extradite 33 individuals it designates as terrorists from Sweden and Finland following the signing of a trilateral memorandum between the countries removing Turkey’s veto on the Nordic nations’ accession to NATO. The Agreement In the memorandum, signed on 28 June 2022, Sweden and Finland have agreed, at clause 8, to: […]
Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk pleaded guilty to charges of causing artists to lose money by deception and being part of a criminal group at the Auckland High Court on 22 June 2022. Both men were officers in the file-hosting website Megaupload, which allowed people to illegally download songs, television shows and films. […]
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