Court of Vienna will see on Thursday the extradition Case of the Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash, whose extradition is suspected of a multimillion bribe in India require the U.S. government, reported before in court.
at the same time, As reported in March, Austrian printed illustrated edition, the court of second instance in its decision of 29 January ruled that the request of the United States on legal assistance and annexed documents to the FBI "did not provide sufficient grounds for suspicion" that Firtash guilty in bribery in India for the license to develop the minerals. According to the journal, the court's decision "makes an incredible" possible extradition of Firtash to the American authorities.
Case Firtash has attracted increased attention of the Austrian media.
Firtash was placed behind bars in Vienna on request of the USA on March 12, 2014 and later released on the biggest in the history of Austria bail of 125 million euros. The United States accused the Ukrainian oligarch and five other businessmen in giving bribes to Indian politicians in 18, 5 million dollars in exchange for licenses to develop fields in India.
As reported before, the press Secretary of the Land court of Vienna Christina Salzborn, it is expected that a decision will be made in equal way on Thursday, because, in the opinion of the judge, speaker Case, that will be enough for 2 hours.
According to Salzborn, the legal process of extradition is different from the usual judicial process - in the process he " don't need to hear all the witnesses and appreciate the confirmation, It's a different procedure, so she (the judge) thinks that the meeting will end two hours after the beginning ".
Firtash claimed to believe in the justice of the Austrian justice and is very grateful to the Austrians, " they behaved very reasonably, that they did not succumb to the pressure of American citizens, at least for today." This message oligarch made on March 3, reporters on the sidelines organized the conference " Ukraine tomorrow ", in which he presented created together with a group of European politicians and experts of the Agency for the improvement of Ukraine with its headquarters in Vienna.
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