: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Austria turns down U.S. extradition request for Ukrainian mogul


VIENNA — Far from the mortar fire in Donetsk and Luhansk, a different battle for Ukraine’s future had been playing out in a courthouse in Vienna and at the Justice Department in Washington, where U.S. officials had spent the last year pressing for the extradition of Dmitry Firtash, one of Ukraine’s wealthiest and most powerful businessmen, and onetime patron of the ousted president, Viktor Yanukovych.

Firtash was indicted by a U.S. grand jury two years ago for allegedly paying off the officials through U.S. banks in exchange for securing titanium mining rights in India.

The timing of Firtash’s arrest on Feb. 26, …read more

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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