In response to a court docket submitting, embattled Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon desires to delay his Securities and Change Fee (SEC) trial to mid-March, pending his extradition to the nation from Montenegro.
In a Jan. 11 letter to Choose Rakoff, as shared by Internal Metropolis Press, Kwon’s authorized crew revealed that their consumer desires to seem on the court docket. Nonetheless, his delayed extradition from Montenegro is impeding this availability.
So, he’s requesting a “quick adjournment of the trial date [until mid-March] to permit for his attendance.”
“We perceive the Court docket can not put the trial on maintain indefinitely, however an adjournment till mid-March would offer a sensible risk for Mr. Kwon to attend,” the letter added.
Nevertheless, if his request is denied, Kwon desires the court docket to instruct the jury that his absence and unavailability to testify shouldn’t be “unduly prejudicial to him.”
Kwon has been held up in Montenegro since final March after he was arrested for attempting to journey with cast paperwork. He served a four-month jail sentence within the European nation, however his keep was prolonged by two months as a result of authorized points surrounding his attainable extradition to the U.S. or South Korea.
Final December, the Montenegro Court docket of Attraction overturned a decrease court docket’s approval of his extradition as a result of the order breached particular authorized provisions.
So, uncertainty looms over the place Kwon could be despatched. The disgraced crypto tycoon beforehand expressed choice to be extradited to South Korea. Nevertheless, Montenegro’s Minister of Justice reportedly leans in the direction of extraditing him to the U.S.
The SEC charged Kwon with eight prison prices, together with securities legislation violation, wire fraud, and allegations of defrauding the shoppers of his failed Terra algorithmic TerraUSD (USTC, beforehand UST) stablecoin. He faces related prices in South Korea, the place his former accomplice, Daniel Shin, is at present on trial.