Aisha Ahmed extradition bid over cocaine charges fails

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Aisha Ahmed’s extradition to Italy over alleged cocaine-importation offences was refused by the High Court on 8 February 2016. The court ruled her surrender was prohibited under the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003, as amended.

Italian authorities alleged Ahmed was involved in importing, selling, distributing and trading cocaine between 1999 and 2000. She had been convicted in absentia in 2005 and sentenced by the Court of Naples to 20 years in prison, but the High Court ordered her €1,000 bail money returned.