Tag: Dmytro Firtash

After nearly twelve years of legal limbo, Austria’s justice system is now reportedly paying back €125 million—the record bail posted by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash after his 2014 arrest in Vienna. The repayment lands right after an Austrian appeals court definitively blocked his extradition to the U.S.—partly because prosecutors missed a deadline. A Christmas present, and a compliance scandal in slow motion.

A Vienna court has finally shut the door on U.S. efforts to put Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash on trial – with a justification that even Austrian media now call bizarre: Firtash is said to enjoy diplomatic immunity as an “advisor” to the Belarusian mission to UNIDO in Vienna. Officially, however, Austria does not even recognise him as a diplomat.

Austria’s appeals court has definitively stopped the extradition of Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to the United States, closing a decade-long case and sharpening doubts about Vienna’s willingness to confront entrenched oligarch networks.