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“However, any extradition would only take place on copyright grounds since the Supreme Court has ruled that the men are not eligible to be surrendered in respec

• philliphaydon 6y ago
  My understanding is that "We will extradite him on the grounds of copyright, but you cannot charge him for money laundering." If they were to then charge him for money laundering, then it would mean NZ has 0 trust that any extradition to the US would be honored and future extraditions would be evermore increasingly difficult. But at the end of the day, who knows. It's the US, they do what they want.
  • justinclift 6y ago
    > If they were to then charge him for money laundering, then it would mean NZ has 0 trust that any extradition to the US would be honored and future extraditions would be evermore increasingly difficult. One of the more interesting points with the recent Assange trial, was the evidence presented (by the defence) of the US breaking it's previous commitments to the UK government for treatment of extradited prisoners. (From memory) apparently other high profile extraditions have only been allowed with certain attached conditions. For example "must be supplied with their medical (diabetes or something like that?) medication", which once extradited were completely ignored. It sounded like there were several conditions attached to these previous extraditions, and all the conditions have been outright ignored. So, the trust thing you mention should (in theory) already be on shaky ground.