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India has an extradition treaty with the U.S. https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/12873-India-Law-Enforcement-Extradition-6.25.1997.pdf https://www

India has an extradition treaty with the U.S. https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/12873-India-Law-Enforcement-Extradition-6.25.1997.pdf https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/12873-India... sooner or later he'd be back in an orange jump suit

scottiebarnes 4y ago
Question is how hard the Indian government would be willing to work to arrest and extradite him.
- ta988 4y ago
  Depends what the US offers in exchange?
  - oarabbus_ 4y ago
    What would they offer to make it worthwhile? It's not like the US is holding Indian nationals in detainment whom the Indian Government would be willing to scour the country to find someone to exchange for release. Perhaps they would for a violent criminal or terrorist, but it certainly seems unlikely for a relatively small-time white collar criminal. The fraud totaled $1.5M, this guy isn't exactly Bernie Madoff. Surely the US would not expect the Indian Government to spend multiple millions in operational and resource costs to locate, capture, and extradite a nonviolent criminal who made $1.5M illegally.
    - nwah1 4y ago
      In the Twitter thread, it sounds like these guys may be connected to frauds worth tens of millions.
    - ta988 4y ago
      Could be lots of things more or less public and unrelated. One more diplomatic visa, help locating/finding/extraditing an India national from U.S., a little help for a contract... Countries have a lot of "diplomatic" incentives they can use for situations like that. And sometimes it is totally worth spending 10x the fraud amount if what you want to do is an example which could well be the case here.
patchtopic 4y ago
..and with Australia, but one alleged criminal has been gaming the system after fleeing Australia to India for 14 years now: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22puneet+puneet%22 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22puneet+puneet%22
csomar 4y ago
Extradition is 10 order of magnitude harder, even for the US legal system. Plus, he'll have enough time to figure out another country where extraditing him is just not worth it anymore.
paulpauper 4y ago
india is a huge country. very easy to get lost, blend in
- sebmellen 4y ago
  I’m not so sure that’s the case now under the new Aadhaar system.
  - rustqt6 4y ago
    Not really. As a local, I can get by without any aadhaar. He had $1.5m in bank, he could have started his parallel government, or probably for $15m but the fact is that even if you're doing everything by law you don't need aadhaar in India.

scottiebarnes 4y ago

Question is how hard the Indian government would be willing to work to arrest and extradite him.

ta988 4y ago
Depends what the US offers in exchange?
- oarabbus_ 4y ago
  What would they offer to make it worthwhile? It's not like the US is holding Indian nationals in detainment whom the Indian Government would be willing to scour the country to find someone to exchange for release. Perhaps they would for a violent criminal or terrorist, but it certainly seems unlikely for a relatively small-time white collar criminal. The fraud totaled $1.5M, this guy isn't exactly Bernie Madoff. Surely the US would not expect the Indian Government to spend multiple millions in operational and resource costs to locate, capture, and extradite a nonviolent criminal who made $1.5M illegally.
  - nwah1 4y ago
    In the Twitter thread, it sounds like these guys may be connected to frauds worth tens of millions.
  - ta988 4y ago
    Could be lots of things more or less public and unrelated. One more diplomatic visa, help locating/finding/extraditing an India national from U.S., a little help for a contract... Countries have a lot of "diplomatic" incentives they can use for situations like that. And sometimes it is totally worth spending 10x the fraud amount if what you want to do is an example which could well be the case here.

patchtopic 4y ago

..and with Australia, but one alleged criminal has been gaming the system after fleeing Australia to India for 14 years now: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22puneet+puneet%22 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22puneet+puneet%22

csomar 4y ago

Extradition is 10 order of magnitude harder, even for the US legal system. Plus, he'll have enough time to figure out another country where extraditing him is just not worth it anymore.

paulpauper 4y ago

india is a huge country. very easy to get lost, blend in

sebmellen 4y ago
I’m not so sure that’s the case now under the new Aadhaar system.
- rustqt6 4y ago
  Not really. As a local, I can get by without any aadhaar. He had $1.5m in bank, he could have started his parallel government, or probably for $15m but the fact is that even if you're doing everything by law you don't need aadhaar in India.