The United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Security has decided to extradite Portuguese hacker Diogo Santos Coelho to the United States, where he could face 57 years in prison, CNN Portugal reports. In February, Portugal filed an extradition request for a 24-year-old man born in Viseu.
The minister refused to listen to the defense’s arguments and preferred extradition to the United States. Diogo is charged in the US with crimes of conspiracy, device fraud and aggravated identity theft for creating and running RaidForums, where millions of euros were raised by selling the data of US companies, but he also committed similar crimes in our country. a country.
According to CNN Portugal, Diogo’s defense team, who is under house arrest in the UK, has three months to appeal the court’s decision.
According to these media reports, the British judge who considered the extradition request filed by Portugal even ordered extradition to our country. But British prosecutors referred the case to the minister because there were two extradition requests.
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