COPENHAGEN — A Dubai court on Monday rejected
Denmark’s extradition request for a Briton
accused of robbing the Danish state of 1.7 billion euros through tax fraud, one
of his lawyers told AFP.
اضافة اعلان
Hedge fund trader
Sanjay Shah was arrested in June by Dubai police Denmark’s request.
He is accused of
running a scheme for three years from 2012 in which foreign firms pretended to
own shares in Danish companies and claimed tax refunds.
“I can confirm that
the request was denied on the grounds of insufficient information from
Denmark,” Kare Pihlmann, lawyer for the 52-year-old British financier, told
AFP.
Danish Justice
Minister
Mattias Tesfaye has said that Copenhagen intends to appeal the
decision by a court in Dubai, if the legal basis is sufficient to do so.
Shah has said he
is not guilty and claims he did not violate Danish law, according to Emirati
media.
Police in the
Gulf emirate said in June that Shah was arrested “with the aim of subsequent extradition
for prosecution in Denmark”.
They said the
arrest was carried out in close cooperation with Emirati authorities and under
a bilateral extradition treaty signed in March 2022.
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