2023-12-30 20:32:12
The federal prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday the extradition from the United Arab Emirates of Franc G., an Albanian national born in 1992, as part of an investigation into an assassination committed in Brussels, in the drug world, in 2020. This is the very first extradition organized between the United Arab Emirates and Belgium.
The man landed in Brussels on Saturday morning and will be brought before him.during the day” before the investigating judge, who will then decide whether or not to issue an arrest warrant, specifies the federal prosecutor’s office in a press release.
Around twenty other criminals whose extradition was requested by Belgium are currently living in the United Arab Emirates. These are mainly people cited in drug cases. “This extradition was possible thanks to close collaboration between the federal prosecutor’s office and the FPS Justice, the FPS Foreign Affairs and frequent contacts with the competent authorities of the United Arab Emirates.“, adds the prosecution.
The previous Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) signed an extradition treaty with the United Arab Emirates two years ago. It was said at the time that this treaty should ultimately make it possible to extradite to Belgium a certain number of key figures in the investigation into Sky ECC encrypted messaging who were hiding in the United Arab Emirates.
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