Why is it that the founders of these global companies seem to be extradited to the US so often, but almost never to other countries?
Let' say you make a huge pirate site (like Kim Dotcom's Megaupload), serving copyright-infringing content from many different countries around the world. Why is the US more entitled to having you in their prisons than, let's say, Czechia, Ecuador or Malaysia?
Is it just imperialism, or is there a more sensible explanation for it?
When it comes to international crime, nations may only have a fraction the resources for their justice systems and will explicitly defer to the US because not only will the US often prosecute more aggressively, the Department of Justice has the money to outlast wealthy defendants' delay tactics.
For example, UK's Ministry of Justice has 1/6th the financial resources of the US's Department of Justice.
One notable example of this is with child pornography prosecutions. Many countries do not have a dedicated child pornography specialist units capable of digital forensics and analysis where the US does. So various international ministries and departments of justice will team up with the US, feeding info back to Virginia and even permanently stationing personnel there to act as liaisons, during very complex child pornography investigations.
Additionally, many countries will threaten extradition to the US to gain plea deals.
Finally, you may have missed the final paragraph:
>The former finance officer of Terraform Labs, Hon Chang-joon, was extradited to South Korea in February, after serving four months in prison in Montenegro over fraud charges.
Most extradition agreements are bidirectional, so it’s really a question of why Czechia, Ecuador or Malaysia aren’t asking courts to extradite someone as much.
My understanding is that these agreements basically require the other country to put the case to court (as long as the act was illegal in both places).
But a solid question of how to handle multiple requestors but there’s only one body to go around.
Maybe because the other countries haven't created the same regulation regime for the things they have been picked up on? The US just puts together the cases and the other countries comply?
Let' say you make a huge pirate site (like Kim Dotcom's Megaupload), serving copyright-infringing content from many different countries around the world. Why is the US more entitled to having you in their prisons than, let's say, Czechia, Ecuador or Malaysia?
Is it just imperialism, or is there a more sensible explanation for it?