: :inin Kyiv (EET)

French court cancels extradition of Kazakh tycoon to Russia


ASTANA (TCA) — France’s highest administrative court has canceled an extradition order to send fugitive Kazakh tycoon Mukhtar Ablyazov to Russia, RFE/RL reports.

In a statement on December 9, the Council of State court said it canceled the extradition on the grounds that the request was made for political reasons.The French government approved Ablyazov’s extradition to Russia in September 2015. But the court’s December 9 decision has now canceled that extradition order.UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer said on December 7 that France must refrain from extraditing an individual to a country where there are serious grounds for believing that …read more

Source: The Times of Central Asia

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