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Craig Lang, who fought for Ukraine, was allowed to extradite to the United States, where he faces the death penalty
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A US citizen at home is suspected of theft, robbery and double murder, and he also faces the death penalty.
The Kiev Court of Appeal again allowed the extradition to the United States of American Craig Lang, who fought in the ranks of the Right Sector, and later as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass, the newspaper reports. Play.
It is noted that judge Denis Masenko ruled to cancel his own decision of February 23, which refused to extradite the American, thereby satisfying the petition of the prosecutor of the Vinnitsa regional prosecutor’s office Lesya Taraday of March 4. She asked to reconsider the decision of the Kiev Court of Appeal of February 23, which prohibited the extradition of Leng to the United States. She also applied for a reconsideration of the circumstances of the case.
The prosecutor’s office considers the refusal of the migration service to consider Craig Lang’s application for refugee status as a new circumstance. This disclaimer is dated February 11, 2021.
Leng’s lawyer Oleg Veremeenko does not consider the refusal of the migration service a newly discovered circumstance. Veremeyenko also points out that a decision on extradition cannot be made until the issue of granting refugee status is resolved.
Craig Lang’s defense claims that if extradited, their client faces the death penalty. According to lawyers, the Ukrainian government has no right to extradite Leng to the United States without written guarantees not to apply the death penalty to him, since the death penalty has been banned in Ukraine since 1995.
Leng is wanted by US law enforcement in three criminal cases. He is suspected of theft, robbery and murder. Under Ukrainian law, these crimes are extradition crimes.
It was previously reported that Craig Lang came to Ukraine in 2015… He said that when he arrived in eastern Ukraine, “someone handed him a rifle right at the station,” and in the morning he was sent to the front.
Subsequently, in 2018, when he returned to the United States, according to prosecutors, he and his friend killed a couple to take their money to travel to the South of America to join a paramilitary group that fought against Venezuelan rule.
His accomplice was arrested, and Lang returned to Ukraine. Neither he nor his accomplice plead guilty. The American has a girlfriend and a child in Ukraine.
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