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. […]
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 […]
On Sunday 3 November, Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered a stay on the extradition of Aleksey Burkov to the US. Mr Burkov, a Russian IT specialist, is wanted in the US on charges of money laundering, identity theft, fraud and illegal access of a computer relating to a large-scale credit card fraud. The case […]
Joseph El-Khouri, a US securities trader facing extradition to the US on charges of insider trading, was yesterday denied bail at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Mr El-Khouri is one of six people indicted by the US in connection with a global insider trading ring in the past two weeks. Others implicated in the offending include Edward […]
The Minister of State for Security and Economic Crime, Brandon Lewis, made a written statement in the House of Commons on Monday 21 October in which he set out the position of evidence obtained form UK telecommunications companies in respect of US prosecutions where the death penalty is an available sentence. The Crime (Overseas Production […]
Julian Assange appeared today with his legal team at a case management hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Lawyers for Mr Assange were seeking a postponement of his extradition hearing in order to gather and submit further evidence. Mark Summers QC, Mr Assange’s barrister, told the court the defence needed three more months to gather evidence […]
Australia has refused the US request to order the extradition of an Iranian national accused of selling US equipment to Iran in violation of sanctions. Reza Dehbashi Kivi, a doctoral student at the University of Queensland, was arrested in September 2018 on suspicion of exporting American-made military equipment to Iran. The US sought his extradition […]
The United States and the United Kingdom have entered into the first agreement made under the US Cloud Act, which is designed to improve investigators’ ease of access to electronic material held outside their jurisdiction. The agreement was signed by Home Secretary Priti Patel and US Attorney General William P Barr in Washington DC on […]
Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, appeared at the British Columbia Supreme Court on Monday 23 September, to begin three days of preliminary disclosure hearings as she and her legal team resist her extradition to the US. Ms Meng was arrested in Vancouver airport on 1 December 2018 pursuant to a […]
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