Once again, the United States’ best chance of catching some criminals is to hope they travel to a country that will extradite them to us. The Record reports:
An Iranian national accused by the U.S. of taking part in dozens of breaches involving the theft of academic data and intellectual property has been extradited from Montenegro.
Amir Barati, a 40-year-old citizen of both Turkey and Iran, was arrested on June 25 by Montenegro’s Police Directorate after the FBI issued an arrest warrant.
In August, the Justice Department named Barati in a 14-count indictment charging 17 people in relation to an expansive campaign prosecutors believe was run through an Iranian company known as the Mabna Institute on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
A Montenegrin court issued a final decision to extradite Barati this week after he was detained in the coastal municipality Kotor during a vacation.
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