SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — One Russian and one Vietnamese suspect were recently extradited to the United States after being apprehended in South Korea earlier this year, the justice ministry said Tuesday. The Russian is under investigation by U.S. authorities on suspicions of using ransomware to encrypt data at multiple U.S. companies and then [...]
ROME, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A Montenegrin appeals court ruled Thursday that South Korean crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon should be extradited to his home country, a decision that allows for him to face trial back home over a massive crypto crash. The appeals court announced on its web page that it finalized the Podgorica [...]
WASHINGTON/ROME, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court in the Balkan country of Montenegro finalized a decision Wednesday to have Do Kwon, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs, be extradited to his home country, South Korea. In a statement on its website, the court said that it had rejected an appeal by [...]
WASHINGTON, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A court in the Balkan country of Montenegro ruled Thursday that disgraced crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon should be extradited to his home country, South Korea, according to the Associated Press. The High Court’s ruling on the co-founder of the cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs came days after an appeals court [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Yonhap) — An appeals court in the Balkan country of Montenegro has overruled an earlier decision to extradite Do Kwon, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs, to the United States to face fraud charges, the court’s website showed Tuesday. Earlier, the High Court in Podgorica ruled that Kwon should be [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Angry protesters have been gathering in front of a local court this week, denouncing a recent decision to keep in Korea a criminal who ran a child porn site. “The decision is neither right nor fair. There is no justice in the Republic of Korea,” one sign read, using [...]