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 […]
Earlier today, Westminster Magistrates’ Court ruled that Hamdi Akin Ipek and his co-accused Ali Celik and Talip Buyuk should not be extradited to Turkey. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard the men’s lawyers argue that they should not be extradited to Turkey because the charges against them were “politically motivated” and that any trial in Turkey would […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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