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Original Post Date: 2008-06-23 Time: 13:00:01 Posted By: Jan
An alleged kingpin in the Fidentia asset management scandal, Steven Goodwin, faces extradition to South Africa after a Pretoria High Court judge dismissed his bid to secure his freedom.
Acting Judge Piet Ebersohn on Monday dismissed with costs Goodwin’s application to set aside and declare unconstitutional a request by the South African director-general of Justice to United States authorities for his provisional arrest in America.
He also dismissed Goodwin’s bid to prohibit South African authorities from applying to the USA for his extradition or taking any action whatsoever in terms of the extradition treaty between the two countries pending the final outcome of two other court applications centring on the validity of the treaty.
“It would boggle the mind if a bona fide state institution could not request, on the principles of comity (of nations), another state to consider extradition of a suspected criminal to stand a fair trial in the requesting state.
“I have considered the question of human rights raised on behalf of the applicant in this matter. It is so, that, in many instances, the dictates of human rights must bow before other more important dictates like bringing fugitives to trial expeditiously lest the whole world collapsed into chaos,” Ebersohn said.
Goodwin was detained by American immigration and customs after arriving in Los Angeles from Australia in April.
He was thereafter arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at the request of SA authorities, and is presently being held in custody in the USA and awaiting deportation to SA.
A warrant for his arrest was issued in July last year on charges of fraud, theft and corruption.
Goodwin contended that the extradition treaty between SA and the USA, on which the director-general of justice relied, was not in force and the request for his arrest violated his constitutional rights.
Ebersohn differed from an earlier court judgment and found that the 2001 extradition treaty between the countries had been incorporated into the laws of SA and substantially complied with the provisions of the Extradition Act and the Constitution.
It was clear that the American courts regarded the USA as being bound by the new treaty, he added.
Even if he was wrong, the judge said, the application for Goodwin’s arrest and deportation was valid in terms of the preceding 1947 treaty, which was then still operative in South Africa. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080623152335208C686613