The Australian federal government has approved a request to extradite a former U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot to the United States where he faces conspiracy charges over allegations he unlawfully exported defence services to China.
Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, who held both Australian and American citizenship, was accused of breaking U.S. arms control laws by training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers on three occasions in 2010 and 2012.
Australia received an extradition request from the U.S. for Duggan on Dec. 9.
Mark Dreyfus, Australian Attorney-General’s Department Mark Deyfrus, said on Dec. 29 that the U.S. sent a request of extradition to Australia on Dec. 9 and that Australia needed to formally respond to the request by Dec. 25, Reuters news agency reported….