Extradition

The Court of Appeals (CA) Alba Iulia on Monday admitted the demand of extradition to the United States of America of the hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, alias 'Guccifer' or 'Little Smoke' his extradition being postponed until he is released on parole or after the serving of the 7-year sentence he has in Romania, reads the website of the said CA.

A Greek national was arrested in Thessaloniki on Wednesday on a European arrest warrant issued by judicial authorities in Germany over tax evasion charges.

Greece's Supreme Court on Tuesday gave its approval for the extradition of cybercrime suspect Alexander Vinnik, a former bitcoin operator, to Russia.

The 39-year-old Russian national is wanted in Russia for alleged cyberattacks against banks resulting in damages of around 750 million roubles.

His lawyer said the court will issue a written decision on September 14.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic's pledge that Belgrade will "not shelter anyone who fights against Turkish interests" has alarmed rights lawyers in Serbia, who warn that extraditions could violate Serbian laws and international obligations.

An Egyptian man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight in 2016 and ordered it to land in Cyprus has been extradited to his homeland after giving up a drawn-out legal fight, authorities said Sunday.

A council of appeals in Thessaloniki on Monday accepted a Russian request for the extradition of Alexander Vinnik, a former bitcoin operator who Moscow accuses of cyberattacks against Russian banks resulting in damages of around 750 million roubles.

This was a supplementary request from Russia, after another court in 2017 said he should be extradited to Russia for a fraud case.

Kosovo prosecutors are discussing amending the criminal procedure code so that they could try war crimes suspects in absentia, as an extradition deal with Serbia seems unlikely.

The extradition hearing of a 57-year-old Georgian man believed to have headed an international crime ring was postponed for the third time on Monday as the suspect appealed against the request by French authorities.

The United States Department of Justice has spent most of its time on Turkey's request for the extradition of U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen compared to other extradition requests, a U.S. official has said, underlining increased cooperation between law enforcement officials of the two countries in the past few months.

Exiled Turkish businessman Akın İpek will face an extradition hearing in Britain in September, the British Interior Ministry said on July 21, following his arrest in relation to a Turkish request to extradite him.