Ex-Colombian Minister’s Defense Says There’s No Extradition Treaty with U.S.
Ex-Colombian Minister’s Defense Says There’s No Extradition Treaty with U.S.
Caracas,
Thursday
October 27,2016
MIAMI – The attorneys for former Colombian government minister Andres Felipe Arias asked the U.S. judge reviewing whether to extradite him to his homeland to release him claiming that there is no extradition treaty in force between the two countries, according to a court document released on Wednesday.
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According to the defense team of Arias, who has been under arrest in Miami since Aug. 24 and was sentenced in 2014 in Colombia to 17½ years behind bars for corruption, the bilateral extradition treaty signed in 1979 has not been ratified.
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Arias fled to the United States in 2014 just before his sentence was announced, and shortly thereafter he presented an asylum request which was taken under consideration but on which no final ruling has yet been issued.
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You remember this S.O.B., don't you?
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Two dirtballs, Arias, on the right, and his little Fuhrer, Alvaro Uribe, former President, and his boss.
Chewing the scenery at the courthouse after being found guilty.