WASHINGTON — Austria’s acting justice minister says he has yet to decide whether to extradite Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash to face bribery charges in the United States.
Voice of America: Austrian justice minister says no decision on Firtash extradition
Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash looks on prior to a public hearing at the Supreme Court in Vienna on June 25, 2019. According to internal emails obtained by Stern and Capital, Firtash had a series of accounts in Wirecard, an insolvent German bank, whose top staff was arrested or implicated in criminal proceedings last year. German officials are investigating Firtash’s accounts for reported money laundering and other dubious transactions.
