A Ukrainian national suspected of being one of the masterminds of the 2022 Baltic Sea blasts cannot be extradited to Germany, Italian top court rules. The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which carried Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea until Russia cut of supplies at […]
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Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has landed back home in Australia, a free man for the first time in 12 years, after a US judge signed off on his unexpected plea deal on Wednesday morning. Cheers erupted from supporters gathered at Canberra Airport in the Australian capital as Assange disembarked the aircraft. He waved […]
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Dutch soccer player convicted in absentia for drug trafficking is arrested in Dubai following extradition request European soccer player Quincy Promes, who was convicted in absentia for drug smuggling last month in the Netherlands, has been arrested in Dubai at the request of Dutch prosecutors who are seeking his extradition. Promes, […]
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A Russian businessman facing extradition to the US escaped from house arrst in Italy and fled to Russia. Artem Uss was due to face charges in the US for shipping oil from Venezuela in breach of sanctions, and for bank fraud. The suspect left his home in Basiglio, on the outskirts of […]
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After 24 months of stop due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Extradition and EAW seminar resumed its annual meeting. The 2022 edition was held in Sarnico, Lake Iseo on June 27-28. Those interested in the activities of the seminar may contact stefano.maffei@gmail.com
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The book includes a paper on the key concepts of extradition law and practice (double criminality, speciality principle, ne bis in idem, assurances) and the typical course of an international extradition case. It then outlines the 30 most famous cases of extradition in history (from Assange to Puidgemont, from Eichmann to Battisti). Dr Stefano Maffei is an academic lawyer at the University of Parma […]
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In June 2019, Ian Bailey was convicted by a Paris court for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a French film producer. Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered while on holiday in the west of County Cork in December 1996. Bailey was sentenced to 25 years in prison and […]
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Carlos Ghosn, the former head of automobile giants Nissan and Renault, is arguably the most famous fugitive in 2020. Ghosn had been under house arrest in Japan after posting $14 million in bail, before making a dramatic and mysterious escape from the country in December 2019. He was awaiting trial on charges […]
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The international Extradition expert group will meet again in Italy in June 2019 to investigate current worldwide developments in extradition law. The seminar will feature a roundtable interactive discussion with academic lawyers, practitioners, judges, prosecutors and law students & graduates with an interest for supranational criminal law. Participation in the seminar is […]
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Soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi, a citizen of Bahrain who was sentenced in Thailand and faced being sent back to his native country, where he said he would be jailed and tortured, was released. He was then able to go back to Australia, where he plays in a team in Melbourne and has refugee […]
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