{"id":60039,"date":"2018-03-05T06:13:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=60039"},"modified":"2018-03-05T06:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T06:13:08","slug":"putin-russia-will-never-extradite-citizens-accused-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/putin-russia-will-never-extradite-citizens-accused-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Putin: Russia will ‘never’ extradite citizens accused by US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Putin: Russia will ‘never’ extradite citizens accused by US<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Russia will \u201cnever\u201d extradite any of the 13 Russians indicted by the United States for election-meddling, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, even as he insisted they didn\u2019t act on behalf of his government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s comments in an NBC News interview airing Sunday illustrated the long odds that the Russian operatives will ever appear in U.S. court to answer charges of running a massive, secret social media trolling and targeted messaging operation to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States has no extradition treaty with Moscow and can\u2019t compel it to hand over citizens, and a provision in Russia\u2019s constitution prohibits extraditing its citizens to foreign countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNever. Never. Russia does not extradite its citizens to anyone,\u201d Putin said.<\/span><\/p>\n

For years, the Justice Department has supported indicting foreigners in absentia as a way to shame them and make it harder for them to travel abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n

The detailed, 37-page indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller last month alleges Russian operatives working for the Internet Research Agency used fake social media accounts and on-the-ground political organizing to exacerbate divisive political issues in the U.S. Posing as American activists, the operatives tried to conceal the effort\u2019s Russian roots by purchasing space on U.S. computer servers and using U.S. email providers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew P. Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel, wrote in an opinion last month “that the American intelligence community has done similar \u201cdisinformation\u201d projects in foreign countries (though not on this scale), these defendants and these indictments will go nowhere.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet Putin argued his government has little to answer for until the U.S. provides \u201csome materials, specifics and data.\u201d He said Russia would be \u201cprepared to look at them and talk about it,\u201d while repeating his government\u2019s insistence that it had no role in directing the operatives to act against the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI know that they do not represent the Russian state, the Russian authorities,\u201d Putin said. \u201cWhat they did specifically, I have no idea.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/putin-russia-will-never-extradite-citizens-accused-by-us<\/span><\/p>\n

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