Manta

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In October 1999, Greece requested that the United States extradite Crystalla Kyriakidou. According to the extradition request, Kyriakidou had entered the United States using a false passport under the name of Christina Manta. Greece sought to extradite Kyriakidou on the following three charges:

(1) deceit of especially great damage, by profes- sion and by habit;

(2) deceit from which it was provoked an espe- cially important damage, in continuation and by habit; and

(3) deceit in continuation against a bank, with damage that exceeds the amount of 5,000,000 drach- mas [approx. $18,000 USD] and committed by a per- son who acted by profession and by habit and especially dangerous.

The extradition request also listed thirty check-related convic- tions that were imposed on Kyriakidou in abstentia, though some of these convictions were declared invalid some time after Greece submitted the 1999 extradition request to the United States. In December 2002, Greece again requested Kyriakidou’s extradition. In this request, Greece added a fourth charge against Kyriakidou for “fraud by profession and out of habit of particularly great damage.”

Based…