Questão jurídica principal
Whether extradition to the USA was permissible under the US-Switzerland extradition treaty and Swiss mutual legal assistance law.
Decisão extraída
The US request was not granted because the underlying conduct, as framed in the request, did not justify priority over Russia and extradition to the USA was therefore denied.
Fundamentação extraída
The Court held that Swiss law did not support treating the alleged conduct as an extraditable offense against foreign fiscal interests by a foreign official in the way required for the US request, and left open additional obstacles such as double criminality and immunity.