Can't they share him? Russia can have him at weekends, America during the week.
Where there is a problem there is always a solution.
A judicial appeals court in Thessaloniki, Greece, has backed Moscow's extradition request for Russian citizen and suspected Bitcoin launderer Alexander Vinnik, The Greek Observer reports. Last week a Thessaloniki court ruled he should be extradited to the US, a decision he is challenging at Greece's supreme court. Vinnik was …
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4 bn USD laundered that came from (amongst other things) hacking related extortions and similar scams etc. etc. This guy is really wanted by the US in order to see if he can offer any clues to the hacking of the DNA and the bots that flooded the net with fake news before the US election.
Isn't that strange that Moscow only wants him on trumped up charges of a minor fraud? They really want to get him back and away from the prying eyes of US law enforcement.
The story is not over yet. The justice minister is a nobody. Tsipras is twice a nobody and he is seeing Trump in a week or so (that makes it a 12 x nobody chalibre meeting). Guess which will be one of the first subjects of discussion (right after the tremendously great job Trump is doing for America, the world and the Alpha Quadrant). My money is on the Rusky going to America.
With respect to capital punishment in Russia, the English-language version of Wikipedia has the following to say :
The current Penal Code[11] permits death penalty for five crimes:According to the same source, the death penalty has not been imposed in Russia since 1999....murder, with certain aggravating circumstances (article 105.2)
encroachment on the Life of a Person Administering Justice or Engaged in a Preliminary Investigation (article 295)
encroachment on the Life of an Officer of a Law-enforcement Agency (article 317)
encroachment on the Life of a Statesman or a Public Figure (article 277)
genocide (section 357).
The article on the corresponding situation in the United States starts as follows :
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United States, currently used by 31 states, the federal government, and the military. ... The United States is the only Western country currently applying the death penalty,one of 57 countries worldwide applying it.Under these circumstances, perhaps Gospodin Vinnik's preference for being tried in a Russian court is understandable.......
Since then [i e, 1976], more than 7,800 defendants have been sentenced to death; of these, more than 1,400 have been executed, 159 were exonerated before their execution, and more than 2,900 are still on death row.
But, of course, Wikipedia is a «Putinbot» and boring anonymous cowards only speak the truth....
Henri