Sunday, March 29, 2009

Britain for the first time in 10 years will give Russia the criminals.

The government of Great Britain for the first time in 10 years, Russia had decided to extradite Russian citizens, Russian law enforcement agencies accused of committing crimes. About Interfax reports with reference to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.
According to head of international legal cooperation Sahak Karapetyan the Prosecutor General of Russia, the British Government will extradite to Russia a few people, the final decision on the two of them have already been taken.
When asked for the extradition of Boris Berezovsky, Akhmed Zakayev, and Mikhail Gutseriev Karapetyan noted that despite the good relations of Russian law enforcement officials with the British "policy of presence ... often negating all positive developments."
In February 2009, Ambassador of Russia in London, Yuri Fedotov, said that no British territory of the Russian justice hiding about 20 people, which requires the issuance of Russia.
In response to requests for extradition of British authorities refer to the impossibility of extradition of persons who have been granted political asylum. These people are businessman Boris Berezovsky, who in Russia brought more than a dozen criminal cases, the head of the self-government of Chechen Republic Ichkeria Ahmet deadly, accused of kidnapping and mass killings, as well as former president of Russneft Mikhail Gutseriev, who charged with the commission economic crimes.
Since the bilateral relations between the countries of Great Britain has never satisfy the demands of the Russian side. In turn, British authorities demand extradition from Russia State Duma deputy from the LDPR, Andrei Lugovoi, who is suspected of murder in London of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. Its refusal to extradite Lugovoi in Russia explains the Constitution, under which the extradition of Russian citizens to other countries is prohibited.

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