Tuesday, January 17, 2006

McNabb in the News (1-17-06)

Senior Principal Douglas McNabb was quoted in an article by the Czech News Agency concerning . In the article, Mr. McNabb suggested that the US government would not take over the Czech Republic’s own case against Mr. Kozeny.
U.S. defence lawyer and legal expert Douglas McNabb said that it is almost ruled out that a U.S. court would deal with the crimes Czech-born businessman Viktor Kozeny has been charged with in the Czech Republic as the Czech Justice Ministry hopes.
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McNabb also told CTK that he considers it little probable that the United States would extradite Kozeny to the Czech Republic before he serves a possible sentence in the USA.
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McNabb said that the United States is very offensive in dealing with international level corruption and that laws give it powers to prosecute even cases that seemingly do not concern the United States.
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McNabb said that the Kozeny case is far from being isolated and that proceedings have been launched against several Britons whose extradition has been applied for by the Untied States where they have been charged with corruption and fraud.
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McNabb said [Mr. Kozeny’s lawyer] will base his defence on that the United States wants Kozeny to be extradited for acts that are not punishable in the Bahamas.

[The lawyer's] other argument will be, McNabb estimates, the fact that the Czech Republic had applied for Kozeny's extradition earlier than the United States and that he should therefore be extradited to the Czech Republic.
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McNabb said that even if the Bahamas rejected both the U.S. and Czech extradition applications, Kozeny will not win. He will remain a Bahamian "prisoner" because the United States will see to it that he be arrested anywhere outside the Bahamas.

Besides, both the United States and the Czech Republic can repeatedly apply for his extradition, so the rejection of one practically solves nothing for Kozeny, McNabb said.[1]

[1] , Czech News Agency, Jan. 17, 2006.

posted by McNabb Associates, P.C. @ 8:11 AM