Do Kwon finally set for South Korea extradition after court rejects US petition
Do Kwon’s extradition to the US has been rejected by Montenegro’s Appellate Court after it upheld the High Court’s ruling that he should be extradited to South Korea.
The appeals court shared the announcement, which appears to be final, today.
It said, 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 deemed that the High Court correctly established the legal conditions for both 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 may mean the end of back-and-forth rulings in the extradition of the Terraform founder. Protos reported in March this year that Do’s extradition status had changed at least seven times. Since then, it changed several times more before today’s conclusion.
Indeed, Do’s lawyer Goran Rodic told Radio Free Europe that this decision comes after 16 months of extradition proceedings. He said, “This is the second legally binding court decision on the extradition of Do Kwon to South Korea,” noting it is, “fully in accordance with the law.”
Rodic also told Bloomberg that Montenegro and Interpol will arrange his extradition and that he hopes it will happen “as soon as possible.”
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