11 Sep EXTRADITION TO BAHRAIN BLOCKED
Areios Pagos (Greece’s Court of Cassation) delivered a much-noted judgment against the extradition of a US citizen to the Kingdom of Bahrain. The extradition from Greece was sought to serve a custodial sentence for embezzlement against a Chinese company based on a conviction in absentia by Bahrain’s courts. The Court ruled that the extraditee had not been properly summoned to appear at the trial hearing because the summons was sent via sms to a non-valid email address.
Ilias Anagnostopoulos and Alexandros Tsagkalidis represented the extraditee in appellate proceedings before Areios Pagos.
