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(…)
Article 15
Rule of specialty under international law
A person extradited under this Treaty may not be prosecuted or subjected to enforcement of
sentence in the requesting Contracting Party for a crime that the extradited person committed
before being surrendered and different from the crime for which he was extradited, nor may he
be extradited to a third State, unless:
:
(a) the requested Contracting Party has given its prior consent. For purposes of that consent, the
requested Contracting Party may request the documents and information mentioned in Article 7
and a statement from the extradited person regarding the crime in question;
(b) the person has not left the territory of the requesting Contracting Party within the thirty-day
period that he was at liberty to do so. However, this thirty-day period shall not include the time
during which that person failed to leave the territory of the requesting Contracting Party owing
to unforeseen circumstances; or,
(c) the person has voluntarily returned to the territory of the requesting Contracting Party after
having left it.
(…)
Article 18
Information on the outcome
The requesting Contracting Party shall promptly provide the requested Contracting Party with
information on the criminal proceedings or the enforcement of the sentence imposed on the
person extradited, or information concerning that person’s re-extradition to a third State.
C.
The extradition process pursued in the case of Mr. Wong Ho Wing and the
remedies filed during the course of that process
67.
Mr. Wong Ho Wing is a national of the People’s Republic of China, where he faces
criminal trial for the crimes of money laundering, bribery, smuggling and customs fraud, supposedly
committed in Hong Kong between August 1996 and May 1998.12 On October 27, 2008, Mr. Wong Ho
Wing was taken into custody by agents of the Peruvian National Police at Jorge Chávez Airport in the
Constitutional Province of Callao. At the time, Mr. Wong Ho Wing was being sought internationally by
the Chinese court authorities.13 He was taken into custody as he was entering the airport, having
deplaned from a flight from the United States.
12
Annex 1. Communiqué No. 0529-2008-DIRINCRI-PNP-DIVREQ-DINO, dated October 27, 2008. Attachment to the
State’s Communication of November 10, 2011, received at the Commission that same day.
13
Annex 1. Communiqué No. 0529-2008-DIRINCRI-PNP-DIVREQ-DINO, dated October 27, 2008. Annex. INTERPOL Red
Notice, Wanted Person, Control No. A-6346/6=2001. Attachment to the State’s communication of November 10, 2011,
received at the Commission that same day.