Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: A former US pilot in Australia will fight a case regarding his extradition order after Canberra accepted Washington’s request to deport him, who is accused of training Chinese pilots, according to Australian media reports on Tuesday. Former US Marine Daniel Edmund Duggan, aged 54, is being held by Australian police following his arrest in October 20222.
Meanwhile, a local court in Sydney was told that the country’s Attorney General Mark Dreyfus has accepted a request from the US to extradite their former citizen just before Christmas, reported by ABC News.
US Pilot case
However, Duggan’s lawyer Dennis Miralis has said that his client denies the charges and intends to fight the attorney general’s order. Miralis said that they will continue to maintain vigorous lines of communication with the Attorney-General.
He also blamed the jail authorities of receiving direct instructions from the United States, treating his client in a different way, and keeping him in a separate area with some convicted terrorists, in violation of the Extradition Act. The concerned court will hear the case again on February 13.
Daniel Duggan was arrested in October last year after British authorities announced a crackdown on former British military jet and helicopter pilots training center for a salary of £240,000 ($272,000). Later, Australia government announced that it would investigate whether any of its retired defense pilots were serving in China for military training in past.
