According to Gisela Cueto Gonzalez, head of the Extradition Department at the DR Attorney General’s office, the United States government is open to renegotiating the extradition treaty that has been in effect since 1910. The Dominican government wants to make changes related to the trial, the distribution of seized assets when drug trafficking-related, or other types of crime in which illicit earning of money is involved.
Nevertheless, she said that the Dominican Republic is also a signatory to the United Nations Convention on Illegal Drug Trafficking and the Palermo Convention that can be used to deal with the abovementioned cases.
She went on to say that when one country handed over one of its citizens to another country, in this case the United States, the country expected justice to be done for both countries. “There is a need to fulfill the justice of the country that waives judging the individual,” she told the press.
Nineteen people were extradited to the US in 2012 and 2013.
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