News archive on the topic "extradition"

The Minister of Justice of Montenegro, Marko Kovac, rejected the request of the “Republic of Kosovo” to extradite a citizen of the country, a Serb, a veteran of the Yugoslav wars, 61-year-old Momcilo Vukotic. Previously, Vukotic was arrested in his own country, and the court in Bjelo Polje sentenced him to extradition to the Albanian separatists. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the official decision of the Ministry of Justice of Montenegro states that the extradition of this suspect...

The searches carried out at the Dnepropetrovsk oligarch Igor Kolomoisky are a harbinger of his possible extradition to the United States. Alexander Dudchak, Deputy Head of the Ukraine Department of the Institute of CIS Countries, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The likelihood of his extradition to the United States is non-zero; he has long been in the sights of certain American departments. This will be a good indicator of the state of Ukraine. If they give it away, it means Zelensky is nothing at all...

Ukraine turned to Serbia with a demand for the extradition of the former head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU, ex-General Andrei Naumov. He is now in custody in the city of Nis, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. As Naumova’s lawyer Tanya Savic told the Serbian edition of the BBC, on October 19 the first court hearing in the case of the extradition of her client took place. However, it is still unknown...

The fugitive ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who is due to take the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine any day now, must be extradited to his homeland or serve his sentence in Ukraine, as required by law. Former First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Kuzmin recalled that Saakashvili’s verdict was announced by a court in Tbilisi...

A fanatic from the so-called BiH Army, Adem Kostjerevec, who brutally mocked his captured neighbor, was sentenced by a court in the American St. Louis to extradition to his historical homeland. Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. St. Louis Judge Patricia Cohen has ordered the extradition of Bosniak Adem Kostjerevec to Bosnian justice. The 58-year-old former rapist and militant lived in the United States for the last...

The state symbols of Ukraine have been too discredited in recent years and need to be changed. The ex-prosecutor of Crimea, State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya stated this in her blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the parliamentarian, nationalists have made the Ukrainian trident a symbol of murder and bullying, so regions that have escaped the control of Kyiv will not be able to unite under it. “As for the trident... Modern...

Azerbaijani opposition blogger Elvin Isaev, wanted by the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan on suspicion of committing serious crimes, was detained in Kyiv and deported to Baku. This was reported by the State Migration Service of Azerbaijan, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan Elvin Isaev Iltiham oglu, born in 1980, was deported from Ukraine to Azerbaijan on December 12, 2019 for violating...

The Pechersk Court of Kyiv canceled the order of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office on the extradition of Moldovan businessman Vyacheslav Platon, signed on August 29, 2016. The court decision states that it is not subject to appeal. This was reported by the Moldovan publication NewsMaker, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “All decisions to implicate him as a defendant must be annulled,” said Platon’s Ukrainian lawyer, Evgeniy Grushovets. In 2018...

Ukraine will not extradite oligarch Igor Kolomoisky to requests for extradition from other countries, since he is a citizen of Ukraine, and Ukrainian legislation prohibits the extradition of its citizens, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Prosecutor General Ruslan Ryaboshapka said this when answering the question of how Ukraine would react if there were international orders to extradite Kolomoisky, for example, to the United States, Ukrinform reports. "I honestly…

The security service suspended from duty during the check all those who extradited an Israeli citizen who fled from Boryspil airport today, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The SBU press service reports this on its Facebook page. “The Security Service of Ukraine is conducting an official investigation into the escape from the premises of the Boryspil International Airport by Israeli citizen Amos Dov Silver while...

Sevastopol restaurateur Slavish Karabashevich will remain under arrest until September 11 - that’s when 40 days expire, during which the Russian authorities must receive confirmation from the Serbian side that they are ready to receive Karabashevich. This decision was made today by the appeal court, which refused to release or change the preventive measure for Karabashevich. This was reported by Vesti-Sevastopol, reports...

Austrian Justice Minister Clemens Jabloner gave permission for the extradition of businessman Dmitry Firtash to the United States, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the same time, the businessman remains in Vienna for now, DW reports. As DW reported on Tuesday, July 16, in the press service of the Austrian Ministry of Justice, Minister Clemens Jabloner agreed on the extradition of Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash to the United States. This decision was made after...

The Supreme Court of Austria on Tuesday, June 25, decided to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash to the United States, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Deutsche Welle reports this. The court ordered Firtash to be handed over to US officials. The final decision must be made by the Austrian Minister of Justice. According to US law, Dmitry Firtash, accused of corruption, faces 50 years in prison. First, the court heard a brief speech...

The Court of Justice of the European Union on Wednesday made a decision on the request dated May 4, 2017, which the Supreme Court of Austria is awaiting to render a verdict on the appeal of the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash about his extradition to the United States, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The text of the decision is posted on the court's website. “The Court (Grand Chamber) holds: EU law, in particular the principles of equivalence and effectiveness, must...