Extradition: USA
(asked on 1st July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were extradited from the UK to the United States in each year from 2013 to 2019.
The following table provides the information requested:
Year | Total number extradited from UK to US | Number extradited for non-violent offences |
2013 | 11 | 9 |
2014 | 18 | 15 |
2015 | 6 | 5 |
2016 | 9 | 4 |
2017 | 9 | 7 |
2018 | 6 | 3 |
2019(to 30 June) | 5 | 4 |
We have taken non-violent offences to include:
• Fraud
• Drug related offences
• Making false statements
• Extortion
• Illegally exporting restricted goods
• Money laundering
• Illegal trafficking in wildlife
• Bigamy
• Forgery
• Grand Larceny
• Identity Theft
• Racketeering
• Tax Offences
All figures are from local management information, and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change. The figures do not include Scotland, which deals with its own extradition cases.