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Finnish Supreme Court agrees to extradite Russian suspect to America

Xinhua, December 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Finnish Supreme Court on Friday endorsed the extradition of a Russian citizen from Finland to the United States.

Russian citizen Maxim Senakhin was detained at the Finnish-Russian border in August and the United States requested his extradition.

Charges have been filed against him in the U.S. state of Minnesota for computer fraud. Senakhin and possible accomplices allegedly installed malware on thousands of servers in the United States, Finland and worldwide.

Senakhin himself opposed the planned extradition. Also, the Russian Foreign Ministry was publically critical of the detainment in August. However, the Supreme Court noted in its decision that no reasons for not extraditing Senakhin had been found.

The decision was made in votes of four in favor to one against. Finnish justice and labor minister Jari Lindstrom will take the final decision probably early in 2016. Endit