Austria has detained Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash yesterday over alleged links to organised crime in Spain, shortly after a Vienna court approved his extradition to the US on separate corruption charges.
Police took the gas magnate into custody as he left the packed courtroom surrounded by his lawyers and bodyguards.
The dramatic arrest of one of Ukraine’s richest men took place just after the appeals court in Vienna unexpectedly ruled that he should be handed over US authorities.
The shock decision overturned a 2015 verdict by a lower court, which had rejected the US request on the grounds that it was politically motivated.
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Source: Gulf times
