It appears that he tried to thwart the diplomatic dodge by issuing a request for Qaddafi's indictment in record time.
The Argentine Foreign Ministry did not respond to repeated requests for information on that meeting, but the official Iranian news agency said Iranian officials dismissed the Argentine prosecutor's request for a mass indictment, saying it was based on "groundless allegations".
The list included so many accusations of rules violations, abuses of power and extortionate negotiating tactics that one public-rights advocate, Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Media Education, said the charges "read more like a request for a RICO indictment," a joking reference to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Thai officials say they must process a second United States request for extradition on a separate indictment for money laundering before Mr. Bout can be put aboard the American jet that arrived last week to pick him up.
Under that agreement, the United States is not required to hand over criminal suspects until they are formally charged, although it is supposed to "consider" requests for custody before indictment.
ICE did not respond to a request for further information about the reason for the indictment's high priority.
The Vietnamese legal indictment cites a May 2010 Chinese diplomatic request for joint action to stop short-wave transmissions into China by the accused pair, who were detained two weeks after the date of the memo.
Stephanie Morales, the commonwealth's attorney for Portsmouth, will request an indictment against the officer who fatally shot William Chapman, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor said in a statement.
The court has been accused of corruption among the Cambodian staff and political interference by the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, which opposed the indictment of additional suspects and resisted a request for testimony from six high-ranking government officials who were members of the Khmer Rouge.
Catino filed a motion this year asking US district judge Warren Eginton in Bridgeport to reconsider a 2013 ruling in which Eginton rejected Catino's request for a hearing on whether the wiretap evidence should be suppressed and his indictment dismissed.
