"Diogo Santos Coelho (aka "Omnipotent" of RaidForums) was arrested in January 2022 in the U.K. when he traveled there to visit his mother. For the past 3+ years, he has been in limbo while both the U.S. and Portugal seek his extradition. It has not been a straightforward matter legally. Far from it, actually. The U.S. requested extradition based on alleged crimes Coelho committed in running RaidForums."
"But Portugal issued a warrant for Coelho, who is a Portuguese national and whose crimes affected Portuguese entities and residents. One extradition request followed by one warrant. What would the U.K. do? What Coelho wanted them to do was to send him back to Portugal to stand trial there. He had actually consented to being extradited there and a judge ordered him to be extradited there."
"U.K. law does have provisions that cover what should happen in the event of a warrant and a request competing, but it seems like the procedures were not followed correctly. Coelho had raised a number of issues because the Secretary of State for the Home Department decided that he should be extradited to the U.S. It was a decision that the minister appears to have made after only a cursory skimming of documents that were not even accurate."
Diogo Santos Coelho was arrested in January 2022 in the U.K. and has remained in custody while the U.S. and Portugal each seek his extradition. The U.S. seeks surrender for alleged crimes related to running RaidForums, while Portugal issued a domestic warrant because Coelho is a Portuguese national and victims and entities there were affected. Coelho consented to extradition to Portugal and a judge ordered that outcome, but a competing U.S. request and procedural errors altered the process. The Secretary of State decided on extradition to the U.S. after only cursory review, raising fairness, human rights, and support considerations.
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