Spain analyzes the extradition to the US of accused of accessing the Twitter of Biden, Obama and Gates

Justice Spanish resumes this Monday the hearing of extradition to USA of a young British man whom the fbi related to the illegitimate intrusion into more than a hundred accounts of Twitter and other networks, including those of the president Joe BidenThe ex-president Obama and the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates.

The procedure, instructed by the National Court of Spainbegan in March 2022, although the judges in charge agreed, at the request of the defendant’s defense, to consult the European Justice on what rules should be applied in the extradition of Britons claimed by third countries after Brexit.

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The defense asked the Spanish court to apply the European doctrine known as “petruhin”: when a third country (in this case the United States) requests the surrender of a citizen of the European Union (EU), the country of which he is a national (in this case the United Kingdom) should be asked if it wants to prosecute him for these facts.

However the European Court of Justice of the EU (CJUE), in response to the consultation of the National Court, ruled that this doctrine does not apply to cases like this.

In this way, once the CJEU has ruled, the Spanish court will resume the procedure on Monday. The Spanish Prosecutor’s Office will support the delivery of the defendant to the United States, where he is accused of forming a plot that would have been dedicated in 2020 to exchanging illegal access to Twitter accounts for payments in cryptocurrency.

According to the extradition request, the suspect, who was arrested in 2021 in Estepona (southern Spain), communicated with a hacker and two other individuals, who acted as intermediaries to access the accounts.

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He is also accused of computer intrusions into social media accounts associated with two public figures, whose identities have not been publicly disclosed, and cyber bullying of a minor.

The Briton refused to be handed over at the time and his lawyer asked the Spanish court that, if this happened, Spain would request guarantees that he would not be sentenced in the US to a “de facto permanent prison” or that he could serve his eventual sentence in the United Kingdom.

Source: Elcomercio

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