US EditionFrench court rules to extradite Russian who owned Portsmouth football club
- A French court has ruled to extradite Vladimir Antonov to Lithuania, according to his lawyer.
- Antonov was arrested in western France last December on suspicion of fraud following a European arrest warrant from Lithuania.
- He is accused of stripping assets from Lithuanian bank Snoras, where he was a majority shareholder, leading to the bank's nationalisation between 2008 and 2011.
- In 2024, he was sentenced in absentia to 10.5 years in prison by a Lithuanian court and plans to challenge the extradition ruling.
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A French court on Friday decided to extradite to Lithuania Russian citizen Vladimir Antonov, a former shareholder of the collapsed Lithuanian bank Snoras, his lawyer announced on Friday.
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French court rules to extradite Russian who owned Portsmouth football club
A French court has ruled to extradite Russian banker Vladimir Antonov, a former owner of English football club Portsmouth, to Lithuania, his lawyer said on Friday.
French justice has given its green light for the transfer of Vladimir Antonov, a multi-millionaire businessman, to Vilnius where he was sentenced to more than ten years in prison. He is currently incarcerated since mid-December in Rennes.
France accepts the extradition of Russian millionaire Vladimir Antonov at the request of Lithuania. Found in Brittany, he is suspected of having hijacked 478 million euros.
Russian oligarch Vladimir Antonov, arrested in France, will be extradited to Lithuania where he is accused of embezzlement. His lawyers feared unworthy conditions of detention.
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