British Bankers May Be Extradited to the U.S.
Three British bankers may be extradited to the U.S. to face Enron Corp.-related fraud charges, the British High Court ruled in a judgment marking the first test case of a 2002 extradition treaty with the U.S. to help speed the transfer of suspected terrorists.
David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby, former executives at Royal Bank of Scotland Group unit Greenwich NatWest, argued that because most of the alleged offenses took place in Britain, any trial should be held there and that their deportation would contravene European human rights laws.
The High Court said it would be “unduly simplistic to treat the case as a domestic English affair” and dismissed the trio’s application for a full hearing.
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