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I'm surprised that he decided to stay in the United States. Germany doesn't extradite its own citizens to countries outside the EU (except in very limited cases
by gst 10y ago
I'm surprised that he decided to stay in the United States. Germany doesn't extradite its own citizens to countries outside the EU (except in very limited cases such as war criminals), so he would have been perfectly safe if he'd moved back to Germany.
And even if he would have been sentenced in Germany the sentences handed out in such cases are _much_ more relaxed than the potential sentence he's facing in the United States.
- londons_explore 10y agoMaybe he was an american? He wouldn't have citizenship in Germany then.
- bluGill 10y agoGermany will extradite in most cases. Here is the treaty if you want to read the fine print http://www.mcnabbassociates.com/Germany%20International%20Extradition%20Treaty%20with%20the%20United%20States.pdf http://www.mcnabbassociates.com/Germany%20International%20Ex...
- germanier 10y agoArticle 7 clearly states that they are not required to extradite their own citizens and the German constitution actually prohibits extraditing German citizens to outside the EU (Art. 16. Abs. 2).
- xenadu02 10y agoIt's called "Faling on your sword". The idea that VW would come out of this with no executives going to prison is laughable. They broke black-letter law. It wasn't just recklessness. There is no plausible deniability. They straight-up cheated. They knew they cheated. Management endorsed the cheating. When the initial investigation got going they lied about cheating. My guess is a number of execs will plead guilty before this is all over.
- mattybrennan 10y agoI wouldn't have taken the jail time for granted. Goldman Sachs managed to escape their admitted fraud with no executives going to jail.