China does not have a treaty with the United States providing for extradition for tax crimes.
The Bush administration was also encouraged by a draft Yugoslav law that specifically provides for extradition, the official said.
Spanish law does not provide for extradition of Spanish citizens to other countries unless their citizenship was obtained fraudulently, according to Javier Cremadess, chairman of Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, a Spanish law firm.
Mr. Bharara's office had also brought an indictment against three Wegelin executives last year, but they are expected to avoid facing the charges because a treaty between Switzerland and the United States does not provide for extradition of Swiss individuals for tax crimes.
He agreed that a more pro- European government was unlikely, but the EU Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) could not be unblocked without full cooperation with the ICTY, which provided for the extradition of Ratko Mladic to The Hague.
As a legal strategy, he began fighting extradition: under the U.S.-Mexico extradition treaty, the "rule of specialty" says that if you're extradited over your objection, you cannot be tried for cases that aren't provided for in the extradition request.
Some fear it will be expanded to provide for the extradition of those merely wanted for questioning abroad.
That was a reference, American officials said, to United States laws that provide for the extradition of anybody found guilty of a terrorist attack against an American official and that allow for the death penalty.
It now seems likely that he will soon be answering for these activities, as well as the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians which is the first ground for his indictment at the United Nations war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.On June 23rd the Yugoslav government issued a decree providing for the extradition of war-crimes suspects.
Analysts are doubtful Turkey will be able to provide evidence for extradition that will hold up in an American court.
