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Why did the Thai court decline the extradition of Bout?

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Why did the Thai court decline the extradition of Bout?

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There will be several reasons in the official order, but probably the most important is that there is an exception in the Thai-US Extradition Treaty for political offenses and a requirement that the crime alleged be an offense in both the state requesting extradition and the extraditing state. The US claimed that Bout was intending to sell arms to the FARC, a group on the US’s list of terrorist organizations. However, the FARC is not listed as a terrorist group in Thailand. Accordingly, the US case against Bout slipped within political case exception and prosecutors failed to establish that the offense was a violation of the law of both nations.

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