Two Europeans Indicted In US For 2003 DDOS Attacks

narramissic writes "In a continuation of the first successful U.S. investigation ever into DDOS attacks, Axel Gembe, 25, of Germany and Lee Graham Walker, 24, of England were indicted Thursday by a grand jury in Los Angeles, California, on one count of conspiracy and one count of intentionally damaging a computer system. The two men were allegedly hired by Jay R. Echouafni, owner of Orbit Communication, a Massachusetts-based company that sold home satellite systems, to carry out DDOS attacks against two of Orbit's competitors."

Comments

Re:Revoke

[idontgno]

Maybe he can run a lemonade stand.

Well, right now, he's running... like the fugitive scum that he is.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/cyber/echouafni_s.htm

Re:extradition

[neuromanc3r]

You're wrong. Germany does extradite citizens, as long as a couple of conditions are met.

Specifically, the suspect must have committed a crime that is punishable in both countries, must not be tortured or executed after the extradition, needs a fair trial and so on...

Re:extradition

[mrvan]

"No German can be extradited to another country. The law can create a different arrangement for extraditions to the EU or an international court, as long as fair trial [rule of law] is guaranteed."

[not a german native speaker, apologies for any mistakes]

Re:Extradition from the UK to US

[CrimsonAvenger]

The difference with extraditing to France is that it works both ways. With the US it unfortunately isn't.

I wish this particular idea would quietly give up the ghost. It's just not true.

There is a valid, reciprocal, extradition treaty between the USA and the UK. The UK has, in addition, ratified a revision to that Treaty that the US Senate hasn't bothered to ratify yet. Which means the revision is valid in the UK (assuming the brits choose to treat it as valid - they don't have to, since it hasn't been ratified here), but the original treaty is still valid in the USA (and in the UK, assuming the brits choose to treat the revision as not yet valid, since it hasn't been ratified by the Senate).

Which means that people can be (and are) extradited to the UK from the USA when the appropriate paperwork is submitted to whatever department of the US government handles such things. Just like happens when the USA wants to extradite someone from the UK.