All news on the topic: Extradition

Police in Riga on Thursday detained Arto Autio, a Finnish national previously listed on Interpol’s wanted notices, whom Finland seeks to prosecute in the country’s largest corruption scandal and who owns property in Latvia.

Russia is seeking to rival the U.S. in efforts to secure the extradition of Kremlin hacker Denis Obrezko, arrested in Thailand in November 2025.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, who has been linked to illegal online gambling operations and is wanted by Europol, has recently stepped up attempts to scrub his online presence.

Mikhail Koryak, described by investigators as one of the leaders of an international criminal network involved in fraud and contract killings, may soon be extradited to Russia, according to sources familiar with the case.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, linked to illegal online casinos and wanted by Europol, has been actively trying to erase mentions of himself online in recent months.

Robert James Purkiss is facing extradition for the alleged septic tank murder of Agnes Wanjiru near an army training base.

A Bulgarian court has postponed a hearing on Lebanon’s request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, the Russian-Cypriot ship operator linked to the 2020 Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people, pending assurances that he will not face the death penalty if extradited.

For six years, Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc—suspected of involvement in the theft of $1 billion—evaded justice by crossing borders under a web of false identities spanning Europe, the Middle East, and even the Pacific, until his arrest in July 2025 at Athens International Airport.

A Chinese fraudster involved in a Bitcoin scam exceeding £5.5 billion managed to evade British authorities for years while staying in luxury hotels and sightseeing across Europe, a court has been told.

After being alerted to the matter by The Observer.

A British man has been arrested and faces extradition to Germany, where he is accused of playing a key role in a Hamas-linked terror cell plotting attacks on Jewish targets.

Georgian authorities have arrested a German national connected to a Tbilisi-based scam call centre that defrauded thousands of individuals worldwide.

James Wellesley stood before a judge in Brooklyn on Oct. 7 and pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy.

Montenegro’s Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended a ruling to extradite Wang Shuiming, a man who was previously convicted in Singapore’s largest ever money laundering case and is currently wanted on separate charges in China.

A high court judge has overturned a Home Office decision allowing a vulnerable autistic man to be extradited to the US on cybercrime charges that could result in a possible 52-year sentence.

Accused of helping officials sell public land for far less than its value, an appraiser has been handed over to Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Bolivian authorities arrested former Interior Minister Arturo Murillo on Thursday following his extradition from the United States, where he had been serving a prison sentence for money laundering, the Interior Ministry said.

When Mexico sent 26 high-profile suspected cartel members on a plane to the U.S. this month to face charges including drug trafficking and money laundering, they did not use normal extradition proceedings. Instead, the suspects were expelled under a national security law.

Mexico extradited 26 alleged members of the CJNG and Sinaloa cartels to the United States, with President Claudia Sheinbaum insisting the move was a sovereign decision amid growing pressure from Washington to crack down on drug trafficking.

Belgian national Othman El Ballouti, sanctioned by the U.S. for drug trafficking, was extradited from Dubai after years of investing in luxury real estate across the emirate.

Jose Adolfo Macias, a.k.a. “Fito,” was arrested 18 months after going on the run for the second time in his criminal history.

Initially arrested in October 2023, the French national was scheduled for extradition soon after.

The confusion in the federal case against Cary Yan is the most recent development in a strange global scheming saga first revealed in a 2023 OCCRP investigation.

The alleged sex trafficker and “king of toxic masculinity" was granted a golden passport by the South Pacific nation while under high-profile investigation in Romania.