Lately a huge steroid empire was busted in Austria. It was discovered that this company got 40 million Euros due to illegal sale of steroids. Mihael Karner was claimed to be the leader of the drug ring. The USA asked Austria to extradite this steroid dealer to the US. But he wasn’t extradited. Mihael Karner paid one million Euros to Austrian authorities that sent him to his native country Slovenia.
Slovenia’s laws are not the same as Austrian’s ones. According to the Constitution of this country, it is forbidden to extradite Slovenians to another country. Mihael Karner is a lucky man. If he had been extradited to the USA, he would have probably gone to 40 years in jail.
Federal prosecutors began the investigation linked with this drug ring in 2005. The steroid ring began to function earlier. Federal prosecutors learnt that since 2000 till 2008 the company got 40 million Euros due to illicit sale of steroids.
Federal prosecutors learnt in 2005 that Mihael Karner and his wife were implicated in illegal distribution of steroids but they couldn’t prosecute them because the Karners were in Austria. But later steroid laws in Austria were changed due to suppression by the US. Moreover, the US induced the arrest of Mihael Karner and his wife.
However the US puts efforts to enforce European countries and other countries of the world to extradite steroid dealers to the USA, it doesn’t have significant success in this area. But the persons who were involved in “Musclebear” and “British Dragon” were extradited from Cyprus and Thailand to the USA. That time the US had a victory.
As for Mihael Karner, the USA supposed that the extradition would be successful. That’s why the US was shocked, when it was found that Karner reached Slovenia safely. So, the USA was defeated this time in the war on steroids.
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