The internet entrepreneur known as Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz, and three of his ex-colleagues (Mathias Ortmann, Bran van der Kolk and Finn Botato) will now have their extradition appeals heard in the New Zealand Supreme Court. The four men were originally arrested, in 2012, during a police raid in Auckland. They have been charged, […]
The US have had their extradition request for two suspected arms dealers denied by the Hungarian authorities. The two suspects have instead been extradited to their native Russia. The US had requested that Hungary extradite Vladimir Lyubishin Snr and Vladimir Lyubishin Jnr so that they could face charges relating to drugs and arms dealing. The […]
Turkish preacher, Fethullah Gulen is accused by the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of orchestrating a failed coup attempt in 2016. It was reported last week that the White House was studying the legal ramifications of extraditing Mr Gulen, who currently resides in Pennsylvania, as part of an effort to persuade Turkey to stop putting […]
This week, the extradition hearing of Taimoor Zaman and Anthony Nnamdi Okeakpu is being heard at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. The US has requested the extradition of Mr Zaman and Mr Okeakpu who are accused of helping to run a hacking organisation known as ‘Infraud Hacking Group’ (IHG), said to be the group behind […]
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 […]
Last week, a Chinese Intelligence officer was extradited to the US to face economic espionage charges. Mr Yanjun Xu was arrested in Belgium last spring, after he travelled to Belgium from China. On 10th October 2018, Mr Xu appeared before the Federal Court in Cincinnati to face charges of conspiring and attempting to commit economic […]
El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey were raised in Britain and are now alleged to have been part of an ISIS terror cell, known as “the Beatles.” The terror cell was responsible for the beheadings of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. El Sheikh and […]
On 27th July 2018, the UK suspended the provision of Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) to the US in relation to the intended prosecution of Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee el-Sheikh. Mr Kotey and Mr el-Sheikh are suspected to be members of ISIS who were responsible for the murders of numerous British and American journalists. […]
Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian man accused by the US of hacking into file-hosting site Dropbox and social networks LinkedIn and Formspring in 2012-13, has been extradited to the US and is due to appear in court today for a detention hearing. Nikulin was the subject of competing claims from the US and Russia for his […]
The speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan has said that he expects the Czech Republic to find in favour of a US request for the extradition of accused Russian hacker Yevgeny Nikulin, which is up against a competing request for his extradition from Russia. The US accuses Nikulin of hacking into file-hosting […]
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