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Fri, 28 Aug, 2015 12:08:24 AM FTimes Report, Aug 28
Russian citizen Maxim Senakh was detained in Finland on August 8 at the request of United States, confirmed the Finnish Ministry of Justice in a press release on Thursday.
The arrest took place on the ground of the Extradition Treaty between the United States of America and Finland.
Senakh is being charged with several cases of computer fraud and misdemeanour in the State of Minnesota. He is suspected of having gained considerable benefits from his criminal actions. A United States court of law has ordered Senakh to be imprisoned.
According to the treaty between Finland and the United States and the legislation on extradition, a person suspected of an extraditable offence may be detained, even if no request for his/her extradition has yet been presented.
The United States authorities must submit an official request for extradition to the Finnish Ministry of Justice within 45 days from the detention. If such a request is not submitted, Senakh will be released.
After the receipt of the request, the procedure in Finland is such that the National Bureau of Investigation conducts an extradition investigation, followed by the Ministry of Justice requesting the opinion on the request for extradition from the Supreme Court.
If the Supreme Court considers that no legal ground for extradition exists, the ministry must reject the request. If this is not the case, the Ministry of Justice examines whether it will grant the extradition.
News agency Xinhua adds: Ministry of Justice official Hannu Taimisto told the national broadcaster Yle that in theory the man could be given over to Russia as well, but in that case he should be guilty of a crime in Russia.
“In that alternative, Finland would have two competing requests for extradition, and there are ways of solving such an issue,” Taimisto said.
However, the human rights ombudsman at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Konstantin Dolgov said on Wednesday that the Russian view was that the man should not be extradited to the United States from Finland, according to local reports.
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