Lithuania extradites to Chechnya accused of belonging to a military group in Russia



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According to the portal, Russia, which has been searching and extraditing him around the world for many years, says the man has been a member of an illegal armed military group led by Chechens for some 20 years, which has repeatedly attacked the lives of Russian law enforcement and military personnel.

According to delfi.lt, B.Estemirov, who fled his native Chechnya with his family, received political refugee status in Lithuania in November 2005 and was also granted a long-term residence permit in the European Union. However, due to knowledge about the criminal life of Chechens in Lithuania, in May 2018, the Migration Department made the decision to revoke not only the granted refugee status, but also a long-term residence permit in the EU. .

This decision of the Migration Department was confirmed by the administrative courts, which were based not only on the data provided by the Police Department but also by the Department of Homeland Security. The information that has been passed on to the Immigration Department and the judges is not being released, indicating that some of the data constitutes a state secret. The question of Extremirov’s extradition to Russia was not discussed in private in the Vilnius courts; not only did the law enforcement agencies hold closed-door court proceedings, but also did not publish the personal data transferred to Russia.

According to sources from Delfi.lt, the request of the General Prosecutor’s Office on the extradition of Chechens did not generate doubts for the judges and they agreed to extradite B. Estemirov to the Russian Federation for criminal prosecution. According to sources, already this week local police officers have to come from Russia and take Estemirov to Moscow. These procedures are generally carried out in the strictest confidence and without disclosure.



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