Vladimir Antonov, the former shareholder of the collapsed Snoras bank, is set to be extradited to Lithuania after France’s highest court rejected his appeal against the decision to hand him over to Lithuanian authorities.
France’s Court of Cassation on Wednesday refused to hear Antonov’s appeal challenging an earlier extradition ruling issued by the Rennes Court of Appeal.
“The cassation appeal was not admitted for consideration. Therefore, the April 3 decision of the Pre-trial Chamber of the Rennes Court of Appeal has become final,” court spokesperson Pierre Albert-Roulhac said.
He declined to comment on the reasons for rejecting the appeal, saying the full text of the ruling would not be available for several days.
Antonov, a Russian national and former owner of British football club Portsmouth, was detained in western France last December under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Lithuanian prosecutors.
