Friday 5 November 2010

Spain signs "Compostela Treaty" with Portugal, Brazil and Argentina to speed up extradition proceedings

Spain signs "Compostela Treaty" with Portugal, Brazil and Argentina to speed up extradition proceedings: "judicial and government authorities of these countries will now have a more flexible instrument for combating cross-border crime and impunity.

On Wednesday, at the Fonseca School of the University of Santiago de Compostela, the Spanish Minister for Justice, Francisco Caamaño, and his counterparts from Argentina, Brazil and Portugal signed an extradition simplification accord (the so-called 'Compostela Treaty') that will provide the judicial and government authorities in the signatory countries with a more flexible instrument for combating cross-border crime and impunity in a more coordinated fashion."

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