An appellate court docket in Montenegro overturns an earlier ruling that authorised the extradition of disgraced Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon to the USA.
Kwon is going through felony fees arising from the collapse of the stablecoin TerraUSD and cryptocurrency Luna that worn out $40 billion price of investor funds in 2022.
In March final 12 months, Kwon was arrested in Montenegro after trying to board a flight to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) utilizing a solid Costa Rican passport.
The US and South Korea each sought Kwon’s extradition, however a Montenegrin excessive court docket determined in February that the 32-year-old would solely be handed over to American authorities.
In a brand new assertion, the appellate court docket says it’s revoking the February choice due to procedural points concerning which nation first filed the extradition request.
The court docket of first occasion says the extradition request from the USA got here on March twenty seventh, a day earlier earlier than the request from South Korea arrived, however the appellate court docket says authorities from Kwon’s native nation despatched an electronic mail requesting extradition as early as March twenty fourth.
“Deciding on the enchantment of the defendant’s protection attorneys, the panel of the Appellate Courtroom assessed that the choice was affected by vital violations of the provisions of felony process from Article 386 paragraph 1 factors 8 and 9 of the CPC, as a result of there aren’t any clear and legitimate causes for decisive info concerning the order of arrival request letter.”
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