[NikolaNovak]

I think most people are unaware of details of international law and agreements. The down voted sibling poster has a great clarifying example - if you are citizen of country A, living in A, but robbed a bank in B, which has extradition agreement and good relationships with A, do you feel you have some magic get out of jail free card? That the crime doesn't count? That you are immune because your crime was international in nature?

I'm in Canada and resenting Americans is our national past time :-), but still most comments here about evil tendrils of American empire are besides the point. Interpol, extradition, etc are a thing outside of America.

[jevoten]

The key difference with the bank robbing example is that that is a crime in both countries A and B, and it didn't take any pressure of country B onto A to make it a crime in A as well.

[detaro]

Do you think/know Georgian law doesn't recognize the concept of secrecy requirements/trade-restrictions around material relating to military equipment?

[mantas]

Illegally trading and/or transporting across borders military manuals is a crime pretty much anywhere in the world.

[Handytinge]

If bank robbing wasn't a crime in country A, do you think A would not extradite to B?

[CaptainZapp]

Very theoretically example. Bank robberies are illegal virtually everywhere. At least that's my assumption.

But in principle you're correct.

If Bob commits a crime in country Ypso and flies home to country Zorg then Zorg will only extradite him if the crime he committed is also a crime in Zorg.

As a more practical example: Switzerland makes a distinction between tax evasion (which is not a crime, but a misdemeanor) and tax fraud, which is a crime. The difference is that when you "forget" to declare income this is tax evasion (to a degree), while if you cook the books that's tax fraud. Most countries don't make this distinction.

Switzerland got a lot of heat for neither providing information, nor extraditing people accused of tax evasion to another country. The reason being that it's not a crime in Switzerland.

Practically, that doesn't really matter much any more due to the whole information exchange on tax issues, which the country is also part of.

There are other reasons for not extraditing a person. For example if such a person is a citizen in a country that doesn't extradite its citizens then any extradition request from another country will be denied.

[jmnicolas]

Most countries don't extradite their own citizens but won't hesitate to do it if it's a foreigner.

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have happened if the things had been reversed (US guy buying Mig 29 flight manuals).