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Although this isn't the kind of business that particularly deserves defending, but if US in fact did snatch and grab this guy from the Maldives (Who seem to hav

by jdong 12y ago

Although this isn't the kind of business that particularly deserves defending, but if US in fact did snatch and grab this guy from the Maldives (Who seem to have no extradition treaty with the US) their actions are far worse than robbing a few credit card companies.

walshemj 12y ago
I think they got the Maldivian coppers to arrest him and had the extradition papers ready to go. The arrest warrant has been out for a couple of years according to krebs
- jdong 12y ago
  Seeing as there's no extradition treaty, Maldivian coppers sending him to Guam would be rather shady.
  - walshemj 12y ago
    the Maldives are part of Interpol so I suspect that honouring that organisations constitution is the legal justification "1.To ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities within the limits of the laws existing in the different countries"
    - Amezarak 12y ago
      Kudos to you, recent news indicates you were exactly right. >President Abdulla Yameen denied a claim by Moscow that the United States had abducted Roman Seleznev from the Maldives and taken him to the American territory of Guam. >Yameen told reporters that Maldives police, acting on an Interpol arrest warrant, had moved against 30-year-old Seleznev during the weekend. “>No outsider came here to conduct an operation,” Yameen said here last night. “No officials from another country can come here to arrest anyone. >“The government has the necessary documentation to prove it,” he said, adding that he has asked his foreign minister to explain the situation to her Russian counterpart. http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/2014/07/10/maldives-denies-us-kidnapped-russian-credit-card-fraudster/ http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/2014/07/10/maldives-denie...
  - Amezarak 12y ago
    The lack of a formal extradition treaty doesn't mean that extradition can't happen. It just means there's no existing formalized processes and agreements in place. You can still be extradited, or the government might give a foreign government permission to arrest you, or any of a hundred other scenarios. There's nothing "shady" about it.
Grue3 12y ago
Considering Russia just recently snached an Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko from Ukraine (who had previously been taken hostage by Donbass separatists), they really have no higher ground to stand on.
- dublinben 12y ago
  Two wrongs don't make a right. This is Kindergarten level stuff.
- jdong 12y ago
  dublinben is right, but wasn't this soldier snatched by the separatists and not .ru govt? At least with a quick google search I can't find anything saying otherwise.

by jdong 12y ago

walshemj 12y ago

I think they got the Maldivian coppers to arrest him and had the extradition papers ready to go. The arrest warrant has been out for a couple of years according to krebs

jdong 12y ago
Seeing as there's no extradition treaty, Maldivian coppers sending him to Guam would be rather shady.
- walshemj 12y ago
  the Maldives are part of Interpol so I suspect that honouring that organisations constitution is the legal justification "1.To ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities within the limits of the laws existing in the different countries"
  - Amezarak 12y ago
    Kudos to you, recent news indicates you were exactly right. >President Abdulla Yameen denied a claim by Moscow that the United States had abducted Roman Seleznev from the Maldives and taken him to the American territory of Guam. >Yameen told reporters that Maldives police, acting on an Interpol arrest warrant, had moved against 30-year-old Seleznev during the weekend. “>No outsider came here to conduct an operation,” Yameen said here last night. “No officials from another country can come here to arrest anyone. >“The government has the necessary documentation to prove it,” he said, adding that he has asked his foreign minister to explain the situation to her Russian counterpart. http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/2014/07/10/maldives-denies-us-kidnapped-russian-credit-card-fraudster/ http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/2014/07/10/maldives-denie...
- Amezarak 12y ago
  The lack of a formal extradition treaty doesn't mean that extradition can't happen. It just means there's no existing formalized processes and agreements in place. You can still be extradited, or the government might give a foreign government permission to arrest you, or any of a hundred other scenarios. There's nothing "shady" about it.

Grue3 12y ago

Considering Russia just recently snached an Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko from Ukraine (who had previously been taken hostage by Donbass separatists), they really have no higher ground to stand on.

dublinben 12y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. This is Kindergarten level stuff.
jdong 12y ago
dublinben is right, but wasn't this soldier snatched by the separatists and not .ru govt? At least with a quick google search I can't find anything saying otherwise.