{"id":88003,"date":"2023-12-08T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T07:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88003"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:20:28","slug":"media-montenegros-justice-ministry-leans-toward-extraditing-do-kwon-to-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-montenegros-justice-ministry-leans-toward-extraditing-do-kwon-to-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Montenegro&#8217;s justice ministry leans toward extraditing Do Kwon to the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montenegro&#8217;s Justice Minister Andrey Milovich announced plans to extradite Terraform Labs (TFL) founder Do Kwon to the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/stock-market-today-dow-jones-12-07-2023\/card\/exclusive-montenegro-plans-to-extradite-fallen-crypto-tycoon-do-kwon-to-u-s--go9pVSEoANWEjPKGAfD6\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports this, citing informed sources.<\/p>\n<p>Officially Milovich has not announced his decision. Most likely, he will wait for the ruling on Kwon&#8217;s latest appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a court in Podgorica <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/montenegro-court-approves-extradition-of-do-kwon\">approved extradition<\/a>, satisfying requests from both South Korean authorities and the United States. It is the justice minister who must determine which country will receive the founder of TFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The final extradition could take place after he serves a <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/do-kwon-found-guilty-of-document-forgery\">four-month sentence<\/a> for document forgery.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Montenegro police <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/terraform-labs-founder-and-ceo-do-kwon-arrested-in-montenegro\">arrested<\/a> Do Kwon and the former chief financial officer of TFL Han Chang-joon as they attempted to depart Podgorica airport for Dubai on forged passports.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest occurred at the request of law enforcement agencies in the United States, South Korea and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/singapore-police-begin-investigation-into-do-kwon\">Singapore<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his homeland, Kwon faces numerous charges, including violations of the capital markets laws.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, he is the subject of a fraud case being pursued by the <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>Montenegro&#8217;s Justice Minister Andrey Milovich announced plans to extradite Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon to the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88004,"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-88003","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":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88003","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=88003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88005,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88003\/revisions\/88005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}