Putin approved the ratification of agreement with Turkey on legal assistance and extradition
Turkey has not yet ratified the Treaty, but, according to the Deputy Minister of justice Maxim Travnikova, from a purely technical point.
MOSCOW, March 7. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on ratification of the agreement between Russia and Turkey on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and extradition of persons for criminal prosecution. The law was passed by the state Duma on February 17 approved by the Federation Council on 1 March. It is published on the official portal of legal information.
The document was signed in Ankara on 1 December 2014. According to the agreement, the parties undertake to render each other legal assistance in investigations, court proceedings or other legal proceedings and to extradite to each other persons on the territory of one country for criminal prosecution or execution of sentence in the requesting country for the extraditable offences.
“Under the crimes extraditable offenses are acts that by law both parties are criminal and punishable by deprivation of liberty for a minimum term of 1 year or more serious punishment”, — stated in the accompanying documents.
“It is a very unusual practice when a bilateral Treaty is with a country against whom we have existing multilateral instruments on the subject”, — said earlier the Deputy Minister of justice Maxim Travnikov, explaining that he has in mind the European Convention on extradition and on legal assistance in criminal matters.
According to him, a separate agreement will allow law enforcement agencies of Russia and Turkey to regulate the cooperation in this field in more detail than expected of a multilateral agreement.
While herbalists noted that, despite the moratorium on the death penalty in effect in Turkey, in Russia, in the Treaty included a special article that allows you not to produce the results in the case that it issued to the individual can be applied this punishment.
“Pay attention to it given the fact that Turkey is now quite widely a debate about the possible reintroduction of the death penalty”, — he stressed.
Turkey has not yet ratified the Treaty, but this, according to Travnikova, from a purely technical point. “They (the Turkish side — approx. TASS) has not notified us about any difficulties, so we expect that after completing necessary formalities they will ratify (the Treaty — approx. TASS),” he said.