An appellate courtroom in Montenegro overturns an earlier ruling that authorized the extradition of disgraced Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon to the US.
Kwon is going through prison expenses 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 yr, Kwon was arrested in Montenegro after trying to board a flight to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) utilizing a cast Costa Rican passport.
The US and South Korea each sought Kwon’s extradition, however a Montenegrin excessive courtroom determined in February that the 32-year-old would solely be handed over to American authorities.
In a brand new assertion, the appellate courtroom says it’s revoking the February determination due to procedural points concerning which nation first filed the extradition request.
The courtroom 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 courtroom says authorities from Kwon’s native nation despatched an e mail requesting extradition as early as March twenty fourth.
“Deciding on the enchantment of the defendant’s protection attorneys, the panel of the Appellate Court docket assessed that the choice was affected by vital violations of the provisions of prison 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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