SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia has authorised a request to extradite former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan to the US wherein he faces prices of cash laundering and breaking U.S. hands manage legal guidelines, the Attorney-General’s Department stated on Thursday. Duggan, who became arrested in Australia in October and stays in custody, is accused of breaking U.S. hands manage legal guidelines through schooling Chinese army pilots to land on plane carriers, consistent with a 2017 indictment unsealed through a U.S. courtroom docket in December.
Australia acquired an extradition request from the US for Duggan on Dec. 9, stated the Attorney-General’s Department, and became required to determine through Dec. 25 as to whether or not to officially take delivery of the extradition request. “The Attorney-General has complied with this requirement, and Mr Duggan’s legal professional has been knowledgeable of that decision,” the Department stated in a declaration to Reuters.
That shows the Attorney-General is of the opinion that Duggan is an extraditable character to the US, consistent with Australia’s Extradition Act 1988. The extradition remember is subsequent indexed earlier than a New South Wales country Justice of the Peace on Jan. 10, the Attorney-General’s Department stated.
Duggan’s legal professional Dennis Miralis became now no longer to be had for comment. Miralis has stated Duggan became an Australian citizen who renounced his U.S. citizenship and denies breaking any law. The 2017 indictment says “Duggan furnished army schooling to PRC (People’s Republic of China) pilots” via a South African flight college on 3 activities in 2010 and 2012, whilst he became a U.S. citizen.
The violations he’s accused of additionally encompass supplying aviation offerings in China, comparing Chinese army pilot trainees, and coaching in touchdown on plane carriers. He faces 4 U.S. prices, together with conspiracy to export protection offerings to China, conspiracy to launder cash, and violating the Arms Export Control Act.