Greece's Supreme Civil and Criminal Court on Monday postponed until November 19 the hearing on the appeal against extraditing Russian national Alexander Vinnik to France over money-laundering charges, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
ATHENS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 05th November, 2018) Greece's Supreme Civil and Criminal Court on Monday postponed until November 19 the hearing on the appeal against extraditing Russian national Alexander Vinnik to France over money-laundering charges, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
The hearing was postponed due to the illness of a prosecutor who is involved in the case. The court's session lasted for just some three minutes, and the judge did not hear Vinnik's defense team.
At the same time, the questioning of Vinnik by French investigators, slated for November 6, has been canceled. The new date will be set later, Vinnik's lawyer Zoe Konstantopoulou, who is a former speaker of the Greek parliament, told Sputnik.
Vinnik was detained in Greece in July 2017 at the request of the US authorities on various charges, including laundering $4 billion through the BTC-E bitcoin cryptocurrency exchange, which was allegedly headed by Vinnik. The exchange has said that the Russian national had never been engaged in its activities. The suspect himself has denied the accusations.
A Greek court ruled in July to satisfy France's request to extradite Vinnik, who was put on the wanted list by Paris in June over money laundering in France. Vinnik is also wanted by Russia and the United States on charges of cyberfraud. In September, the Greek Supreme Court ruled to extradite Vinnik to Russia at the second request issued by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.
