Since the beginning of this year, Western countries have refused to comply with 19 requests from Russia to extradite citizens for criminal prosecution. Among the defendants are those involved in banditry, murder, kidnapping, theft, drug trafficking and fraud, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation .
At the same time, the competent authorities of Austria and Poland motivated their decision by the alleged possible violation of the rights of the person prosecuted in the event of extradition to the Russian authorities. And in Bulgaria, Italy, Germany and Romania they refused to extradite criminals because of some kind of “inhuman and degrading treatment”.
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office notes that denials of extradition contradict obligations under the 1957 European Convention on Extradition. This allows criminals to avoid deserved punishment.
Recall that recently the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov said that in 2022 five strategic enterprises of Russia were removed from foreign control. In addition, in court, agreements with foreign structures on the extraction of bioresources worth more than five billion rubles were recognized as null and void.
The laundering of more than 3.5 billion rubles obtained illegally has been stopped. Another 12 billion, which were the subject of illegal legalisations, were sent back to the Treasury. The Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation has received 19 refusals from the West to extradite citizens since the beginning of the year
