The ‘chase for Skase’, the Sydney lottery kidnapping and other infamous extradition cases

If there’s anything you can count on in an extradition case, it’s that the process will not be simple or brief.

Extradition requests are not common — over the past decade, Australia has made an average of about a dozen extradition requests each year, and just 82 requests have been granted.

Dozens of those requests are still going through the legal process, which can often take years to reach a conclusion.

Over the 2019-2020 financial year, just three of the 11 extradition requests made by Australia were granted.

In 2020, a 21-year-old Colombian man was extradited from the Caribbean island nation of Aruba and charged with the murder of a woman in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

A Canadian man was extradited from Toronto over the alleged…