{"id":87472,"date":"2023-11-24T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=87472"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:02:19","slug":"montenegro-court-approves-extradition-of-do-kwon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/montenegro-court-approves-extradition-of-do-kwon\/","title":{"rendered":"Montenegro court approves extradition of Do Kwon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court in <span data-descr=\"capital of Montenegro\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Podgorica<\/span> has approved the extradition of Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon. According to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, the requests of both the South Korean authorities and the United States have been satisfied. The final decision on to whom Kwon will be extradited will be made by the country\u2019s justice minister.<\/p>\n<p>Extradition is possible after Do Kwon serves a <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/do-kwon-found-guilty-of-document-forgery\">four-month prison term<\/a> for document forgery.<\/p>\n<p>On 23 March, Montenegrin police <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/terraform-labs-founder-and-ceo-do-kwon-arrested-in-montenegro\">arrested<\/a> the entrepreneur attempting to depart from Podgorica airport to Dubai using forged documents. In May he and the former chief financial officer of the company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/do-kwon-pleads-not-guilty-to-document-forgery\">did not plead guilty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In June Kwon was released under <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/do-kwon-and-han-chang-joon-released-on-bail-in-montenegro\">house arrest<\/a>, with bail set at \u20ac400 000 ($436 000).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, South Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/south-korea-urges-extradition-of-do-kwon-to-his-homeland\">urged Montenegro to extradite<\/a> Kwon to his homeland. The United States also seeks the extradition of the head of TFL, where he faces fraud charges brought by <span data-descr=\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SEC<\/span> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/u-s-prosecutors-charge-do-kwon-with-fraud\">the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Podgorica (the capital of Montenegro) has ruled in favour of extraditing Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1407,852],"class_list":["post-87472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-montenegro","tag-terra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87474,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87472\/revisions\/87474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}