There is an error in João Rendeiro’s extradition request to Portugal, says lawyer | Justice
João Rendeiro returns to the court in Durban this Friday and his defense has an ace up its sleeve. According to lawyer June Marks, there is an error in the extradition request submitted by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR). But can this error jeopardize the entire process? The lawyer for the former banker, who has been detained in South Africa since December 11, 2021, says it is still being considered how he will address the issue.
“We know at least one mistake and asking to see all the documentation to know if there is more that will be said and only maintaining that this issue will be said in court by the judge.
June Marks does not say that Friday’s hearing should, similarly to the previous duration, serve to address this issue of a possible error with documentation to continue and to set a new date for the commencement of the extradition process discussion.
Asked about the presence of her client in court, since it was reported that he is sick, the lawyer said that despite not being well, he has a cough and fever, João Rendeiro will go to the hearing.
The ex-banker’s defense is trying everything and more so that João Rendeiro awaits the decision on his extradition to Portugal in freedom.
June Marks has even written to Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, and the country’s Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, about the case of João Rendeiro, alleging “several errors in the process that led to his provisional arrest under warrants.” of international detention”.
It also took place on the 31st of entry, with an appeal 31 that seems to be taking place to anticipate, since a trial seems to be taking place, since a trial has taken place, as it has taken place in the Court of Verula , as it seems to be happening, once it has taken place a trial has not taken place, once a trial has taken place, an occurrence has taken place, as it has taken place in the Court of Verula.
June Marks said that she will also file a new request for release and the payment of a bond and says that she is also prepared to face the South Africans in court, as she already has people who will testify in favor of João Rendeiro.
The former banker currently has four European and international protection warrants in his name. In Portugal, the former banker was convicted three times in court. In one of the cases, the court found that João Rendeiro withdrew 13.61 million euros from the BPP and sentenced him to ten years in prison, with this sentence still being appealed. In the context of this process, the judge of an international arrest request was not authorized, when João Rendeiro notified the court of Portugal.
But the former banker already has a sentence of five and eight months in prison to fulfill, for computer forgery and forgery, a sentence that has already become final and not for which another international and European arrest warrant was granted.
The third arrest warrant was issued on the 15th of September by the judge Francisco Henriques, who, on the 28th of September, had sentenced the former banker to years and six months in prison for a crime of qualified fraud.
This arrest warrant aims to have João Rendeiro appear in court to change coercive measures, but also aims to comply with the “principle of specialty”. According to the explanation of this judge’s requests, João, the judge, the designation of a sentence that can be granted at the extraBLICO request of the judges, a decision that can be granted in the case of this judge’s extraBLICO request, the designation to be considered in the case of to be able to comply with the process of fulfilling an appeal.
The “principle of special liberty” is a rule that provides for the person to be surrendered in compliance with a warrant for the surrender of a person or confidentiality for an offense committed at the time of his protection and different from the one that gave rise to the issuance of the warrant”. If this process fails, part of the extradition request could later challenge this sentence.
This decision concerns a process in which ambassador Júlio Mascarenhas demanded that João Rendeiro and the two former BPP administrators, Paulo Guichard and Salvador Fezas Vital, were ordered to pay him compensation of more than 377 thousand euros.
The fourth arrest warrant, which is also already in the hands of the South African authorities, is related to the process of the works of art. The warrant was sent in early January by a prosecutor from the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DCIAP).
In this case, among the defendants is Maria de Jesus Rendeiro, wife of the former banker, who on Monday went again to the court in Durban to hear the South African judge say that her imprisonment would be extended until the 21st of January.
