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Order for surrender to Lithuania where extra-territorial drug offences were linked to the issuing State
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High Court grants an order for the surrender of the respondent to Lithuania pursuant to a European arrest warrant for the purposes of conducting a criminal prosecution in respect of three offences relating to participation in a criminal organisation, trafficking in human beings and illegal drug trafficking, on the grounds that: (a) the alleged narcotics offence specified in the warrant was committed in the issuing state as well as in Ireland and the UK; and (b) sufficient details have been furnished by the issuing judicial authority in accordance with statute.
Application seeking order for the surrender of the respondent to Lithuania pursuant to a European arrest warrant for the purposes of conducting a criminal prosecution in respect of 3 offences relating to participation in a criminal organisation, trafficking in human beings and illegal drug trafficking - whether surrender in respect of the drug trafficking offence is precluded by reason of s. 44 of the Act of 2003 as the offence had been committed outside the territory of the issuing state and the requirements of s. 44 of the Act of 2003 had not been met - whether sufficient particulars had not been furnished by the issuing state in order to comply with the requirements of s. 11(1A) of the Act of 2003.
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