Do Kwon’s extradition to the US has been rejected by Montenegro’s Appellate Court docket after it upheld the Excessive Court docket’s ruling that he needs to be extradited to South Korea.
The appeals court docket shared the announcement, which seems to be closing, at present.
It stated, translated from Montenegrin, “There was no appeal against the aforementioned decision, so the decision of the High Court in Podgorica, in the part in which extradition is allowed in a shortened procedure at the request of the Republic of Korea, is legally binding.”
The court docket deemed that the Excessive Court docket accurately established the authorized circumstances for each the US and South Korea to petition for Do Kwon’s extradition and that South Korea’s request had arrived first.
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This will likely imply the tip of back-and-forth rulings within the extradition of the Terraform founder. Protos reported in March this yr that Do’s extradition standing had modified at the least seven occasions. Since then, it modified a number of occasions extra earlier than at present’s conclusion.
Certainly, Do’s lawyer Goran Rodic instructed Radio Free Europe that this determination comes after 16 months of extradition proceedings. He stated, “This is the second legally binding court decision on the extradition of Do Kwon to South Korea,” noting it’s, “fully in accordance with the law.”
Rodic additionally instructed Bloomberg that Montenegro and Interpol will organize his extradition and that he hopes it’s going to occur “as soon as possible.”
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