13 Apr, 2022 @ 18:00
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Man extradited from Ukraine to Spain to face attempted murder charge

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WHILE the 110,00 Ukrainians who have found refuge in Spain will be relieved to be here, one man won’t after he was extradited from the war-torn country to face attempted murder charges in Madrid.

Spanish police made the long trip to the Polish border to pick up the Georgian man after the Ukrainian high court ordered his extradition.

He was then bundled onto a plane and flown to Madrid to face justice on money laundering and attempted murder charges.

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Police say that the man, identified only by the initials KS, was between 2008 and 2010 in charge of laundering a Georgian gang’s illicit gains.

He is also accused of ordering the murder of a member of a reival gang.

After an international arrest warrant was issued by Spain, KS was arrested in March 2020 by the Ukrainian authorities. He has been held in detention until his extradition was finally approved last month.

Despite the war in Ukraine, Interpol arranged for the extradition to go ahead, with Polish authorities helping in the transfer of the suspect.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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