Английская прокуратура о Луговом

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CPS receives Russian response to Lugovoy extradition request

10 July 2007

The Crown Prosecution Service has received the formal response from the Russian authorities to its request that Andrey Lugovoy be extradited for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, said: "The Russian response has now been conveyed to us and the Russian authorities have declined to extradite Andrey Lugovoy. They have said that they are prepared to put Mr Lugovoy on trial in Russia if the evidence is forwarded to them.

"The allegation against Mr Lugovoy is that he murdered a British citizen by deliberate poisoning and that he committed this extraordinarily grave crime here in our capital city. The appropriate venue for his trial is therefore London."

Notes to Editors

1. The CPS announced its decision to seek the extradition of Andrey Lugovoy on 22 May 2207.
2. The formal response from the Russian authorities was received on 9 July 2007.
3. For further information contact CPS Press Office, 020 7796 8127.

http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/142_07.html

Comments

[ivan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

I liked their 2207 part. It's like digging and hanging the bones of Oliver Cromwell.

[vlad-ab.livejournal.com]

Нелепость какая-то. В американском правосудии это был бы 100-процентный аргумент защиты против суда в Лондоне - именно потому, что это место преступления.

[ktotam.livejournal.com]

"A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime."