ASTRAKHAN – Lawyer of Nadia Savchenko, who was convicted for 22 years of imprisonment in Russia, Nikolai Polozov plans on Friday to register a package of the documents to handle her client to Motherland.
“Under the Extradition Convention, the Justice Ministry of the requesting (Ukraine) side sends to the requested side (Russia) a package of documents. The requested side is obliged to find out from the person to be extradited if he/she agrees to be extradited, that is, whether there is nothing that may threaten her/him there. She (Savchenko) must fill in these documents. Tomorrow I’ll fly to Rostov to visit her and we’ll fill in all the documents and will give her,” Polozov told the journalists in Astrakhan on Thursday.
He expressed a hope that “the procedure will be expedited.”
“The whole procedure takes minimally a half a year in a regular routine. When Savchenko will sign these documents, they will be handled to Justice Ministry, which, in turn, will send them to the court (in Russia) where she is currently located. This currently is detention facility No. 3 in Novocherkassk. The court then makes a decision. The court must receive from Ukraine recognition of verdict,” Polozov added.
