Montenegro’s Supreme Court sends Do Kwon’s extradition case back to lower court

The Supreme Court of Montenegro has annulled a determination from the country’s little courts affecting the extradition of Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to either the United States oregon South Korea.

In an April 5 notice, Montenegro’s Supreme Court said it had approved a petition for a extortion of legality against a little tribunal determination that would person allowed Kwon’s extradition to South Korea. Prosecutors who made the petition argued that an appellate tribunal violated process successful rejecting an entreaty from Kwon’s ineligible team, placing the last determination connected the Supreme Court.

“In a concern wherever it is simply a substance of competing requests from 2 states for the extradition of the aforesaid person, and not a struggle of requests for the extradition of the aforesaid person, arsenic recovered by the little courts, the court’s work is to determine, successful accordance with its powers, whether the ineligible conditions for extradition person been met the suspect successful narration to each petition individually, aft which the competent minister, not the court, decides connected the support and bid of precedence of extradition,” said the ruling.

The Supreme Court said the determination of Kwon’s extradition would instrumentality to the High Court successful Podgorica, which could determine whether the Terraform co-founder is sent to the U.S. oregon his autochthonal South Korea. He faces transgression charges successful some countries but has been successful Montenegro since his apprehension successful the state successful March 2023 for utilizing falsified question documents. Kwon reportedly remains escaped to travel wrong Montenegro until the courts determine connected his extradition case.

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With the lack of Kwon, lawyers representing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission person moved guardant with a assemblage trial against Terraform and the co-founder successful March. Some of Kwon’s erstwhile statements person been work into the grounds astatine trial. The lawsuit was ongoing astatine the clip of publication.

While Kwon remains successful Montenegro, Terraform Labs’ erstwhile main fiscal serviceman Han Chang-joon — besides arrested successful March 2023 — was extradited to South Korea. South Korean authorities person indicted respective individuals connected to Terraform Labs, including co-founder Hyun-seong Shin.

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