A court in Warsaw will give the USA, the Ukrainian accused of “piracy”: Poland extradites to America Artem Vaulin, owner of one of the largest torrent trackers, which can go to jail for 25 years

The Warsaw district court agreed to the extradition in the USA the Ukrainian Artem Vaulin, the owner of one of the world’s largest torrent-KickassTorrents cleanup. The Americans intend to charge him of copyright infringement and money laundering. Vaulin is now in hospital near Warsaw.

Reports about it “Диалог.UA” referring to “PR”.

This is the first stage of extradition proceedings. The legality of extradition must confirm the court in two instances and may also appeal the decision to the Supreme court. If the courts in both instances will agree to the extradition of Ukrainian, the final decision will be taken by the Minister of justice. As reported in the Warsaw court, “due to the complexity and volume of business, the announcement and justification for this decision will last for up to 7 days”.

21 July 2016 at the airport named after F. Chopin in Warsaw Artem Vaulin Kharkiv was detained by Polish border guards. The trial for his extradition has been ongoing for almost 5 months. The owner of the Internet tracker KickassTorrents and his lawyers initially claimed that the 30-year-old man has serious back problems, and he needs constant medical monitoring, but because he is unable to participate in the next meetings of the court.

In this regard, the process in November and December did not take place. The first man was in custody, but because of ill health, he was transferred to a hospital near Warsaw. There was also held a meeting at which the district court agreed to his extradition.

According to the American of the Prosecutor General, Artem Vaulin, who in 2008 posted a free access system BitTorren tens of millions of files with music and films, computer games and television programmes have provided access to their download through the web network.

He is accused of activities that resulted in losses of copyright holders in the amount of $ 1 billion, and money laundering.

In the US, the Ukrainian faces up to 5 years of imprisonment for copyright infringement and up to 20 for money laundering. According to statistics, the torrent tracker KickassTorents monthly visits to 50 million Internet users. As of July 2016, the website was ranked 68 in attendance in the world according to global Alexa.