AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2001
FED: Antony Oates loses extradition challenge
Former Bond Corporation director ANTONY OATES has lost his challenge to an extradition
order requiring him to return from Poland to face charges in Australia.
But his lawyer says that OATES, who began a separate extradition appeal to a Polish
court yesterday, may appeal against the Federal Court decision.
OATES faces charges over alleged involvement in the stripping of $1 billion in assets
from Bell Resources in 1988 and 1989, to prop up Bond Corporation.
He's lived in Poland since 1991, years before the charges were laid, and has been fighting
extradition to Australia for five years.
Today Justice KEVIN LINDGREN rejected OATES' claim that the offences he's charged with
lie outside the terms of the relevant extradition treaty.
That treaty was signed in January 1932 between His Majesty King GEORGE V and the President
of the Republic of Poland.
Justice LINDGREN found the request by Australia to Poland for the extradition was not unlawful.
AAP RTV mss/rt/jn
KEYWORD: OATES (SYDNEY)
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