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"Biggest facilitator of child porn in the world" fails in bid to halt extradition

Summary

The Court of Appeal dismissed Eric Eoin Marques's appeal against his extradition to the United States. Marques, who is accused of running the world's largest child‑pornography facilitation site, Freedom Hosting, was arrested in 2013 on a US request. He has filed several actions in Ireland, including a challenge to the Director of Public Prosecutions' decision not to prosecute him domestically and a request that the Minister for Justice disclose the reasons for that decision before ordering his surrender. The High Court had already dismissed his application in November 2015, and the Court of Appeal had rejected it again in 2016. In its latest ruling, the Court of Appeal, with Justices Peart, Mahon and Hedigan, confirmed that extradition is an international cooperation process, not a criminal proceeding, and that Marques had no right to compel the Minister to obtain or disclose the DPP's reasons.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: "Biggest facilitator of child porn in the world" fails in bid to halt extradition. Procedural stage: appeal

When:

• June 2017 Hearing Or Sentence
• December 2015 Hearing Or Sentence
• 2018-06-18 Publication

Why: He had no right to a refusal of his extradition because the DPP made a decision not to prosecute him, and no right to even to require the Minister to consider exercising that office's holder's power to refuse his extradition, the judge said. CNI source report

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Read the original CNI report