Paving the way for start of extradition proceedings, a Delhi court has sent to Tihar jail, fugitive Surgey Valeryevich Storchak, who is wanted in the USA for his alleged complicity in
financial frauds there.
Storchak, a dual citizen of Ukraine and Germany who is in judicial custody after being detained at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI)
Airport by immigration authorities, was produced before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Ajay Pandey in connection with the
extradition inquiry initiated by the Ministry of External Affairs at the request of the US.
The court allowed MEA to proceed with the extradition proceedings and fixed the matter for further hearing on July 24.
Earlier, the ACMM had issued a production warrant against Storchak after allowing the plea of Naveen K Matta, special prosecutor of MEA, that
he be kept in judicial custody in the interest of justice.
MEA had also filed a copy of the order issued by a court in Southern District at California, along with the extradition request of the federal government of the USA.