An appellate courtroom in Montenegro has upheld the choice of a decrease courtroom on the extradition case of Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon.
Kwon is going through legal fees in his native South Korea and the US stemming from the $40 billion crash of the TerraUSD stablecoin and its companion token, LUNA.
Each nations sought Kwon’s extradition after the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul was arrested in a Montenegrin airport in March 2023.
In June, the Excessive Courtroom of Podgorica dominated that Kwon ought to be handed over to South Korea and never the US because the extradition request from Kwon’s homeland arrived sooner than that of the US.
On Thursday, the appellate courtroom introduced its help for the Excessive Courtroom’s ruling and likewise famous that there was no attraction in opposition to its choice.
Reads the translated assertion of the appellate courtroom,
“In accordance with the evaluation of the Appellate Courtroom, the first-instance courtroom accurately established the achievement of the authorized circumstances for extradition for each petitions in accordance with the provisions of the Legislation on Worldwide Authorized Help in Prison Issues and that the request of the Republic of Korea arrived earlier within the order of arrival in comparison with the request of the USA.”
The event comes months after the Montenegro Supreme Courtroom overturned a choice to extradite Kwon to South Korea due to procedural lapses within the decrease courts.
Citing Do Kwon’s lawyer Goran Rodic, Bloomberg experiences that Montenegro will organize the extradition with help from Interpol.
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