9th Feb 2022
Russian and US relations continue to be fraught, with confrontational rhetoric from both sides on a weekly basis. The tension between the two states is not limited to any one issue or arena of conflict, and encompasses potential war in Ukraine, traditional and cyber-espionage, disinformation campaigns and economic sanctions. One battlefield that has received less […]
16th Feb 2021
The International Legal Assistance Chamber of the Amsterdam District Court has refused to order the extradition of a 33 year old Polish national to Poland on drug trafficking charges on the grounds that, if extradited, there is a real risk that he will not receive a fair trial. The court cited its own earlier […]
31st Jan 2020
The European Court of Human Rights has refused a request filed by Volodymyr Tsemakh to bar his extradition to the Netherlands from Russia. Dutch prosecutors are seeking Mr Tsemakh as a suspect in the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 which resulted in the death of 298 people, […]
27th Dec 2019
In a co-ordinated effort between the NCA, Merseyside Police and Dutch Police, Daniel Burdett was arrested on Christmas Day in The Hague pursuant to a European Arrest Warrant. Mr Burdett, from Liverpool, was sought by Merseyside Police in connection with 10 charges of conspiracy to import firearms and ammunition and conspiracy to supply Class A […]
10th Sep 2019
The Philippines National Police (PNP) announced on Tuesday 10 September 2019 that it had sought the assistance of INTERPOL to obtaining a Red Notice for José Maria (Joma) Sison who, along with his wife and 36 others, is facing murder charges in the Philippines. The PNP chief Oscar Albayalde said his officers were coordinating with […]
9th Sep 2019
Dutch prosecutors have asked the Russian Federation to extradite Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Tsemakh, in connection with the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine in July 2014. Mr Tsemakh is both a key witness and a potential suspect in respect of the attack on the aircraft which resulted in the deaths of […]
3rd Sep 2019
Hennie Verbeek-Kusters, outgoing Chair of the Egmont Group, a collective of 164 financial intelligence units (“FIUs”), and her successor Mariano Federici have expressed concerns regarding the efficacy of cross-border investigations that are suffering as a result of uncooperative jurisdictions and an unsatisfactory mutual legal assistance framework. Ms Verbeek-Kusters told the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic […]
10th May 2019
A Dutch court in Amsterdam has refused to extradite a man, accused of drugs trafficking offences, back to the UK because the conditions in HMP Liverpool were ruled to breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The man, who had been arrested on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW), was not named […]
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