Montenegro Attorney General Boyan Bozovic has signed an order to extradite Kwon to the United States.
"A comprehensive review of the severity of the crime, the location of the crime, the order of extradition claims, and nationality, most of the criteria met the U.S. extradition request," the Montenegrin Justice Department said in a statement.
At the same time, he added that he rejected South Korea's extradition request.
In the meantime, Kwon strongly demanded the Montenegrin government to go to Korea.
This is because the maximum sentence for economic crimes in Korea is about 40 years, but the United States adopts a concomitant principle of summing up the sentences for each individual crime, so Kwon can also be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.
However, as Kwon has desperately refused to go to the U.S., which is expected to be heavier than Korea, and has used all legal means possible to do so, it may be worth waiting to see if he will be extradited to the U.S. immediately.
Earlier on the 24th, the Montenegrin Constitutional Court rejected a constitutional petition filed by Kwon, saying that the extradition process was unfairly carried out.
The court's decision to dismiss Kwon's extradition process resumed, and the attorney general had the right to decide on the extradition permit.
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