Extradition

Extraditions under the UAE statute are a matter for expert legal, political, and diplomatic navigation. With the sensitivities and high stakes, it is crucial that clients seek an experienced extradition lawyer or extradition law firm to ensure their rights and interests are defended.

Suhaila Al Marzooqi and her group, who are a very experienced team of both Emirati and foreign counsels, provide assistance in extradition in Dubai at all stages. With a strong track record of successful extradition cases involving charges such as money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, terrorism, and drug trafficking, they secure favourable results whilst protecting clients’ rights.

They provide advice throughout all stages of the extradition case process, including the initial assessment of applications made by foreign authorities, considered at different levels in UAE courts, from first instance applications to appeals and final decisions made by the UAE Central Government. Suhaila is also qualified to provide expert evidence on Dubai extradition laws and extradition law before courts and arbitral bodies internationally, so that clients have the assurance that they will receive the best advice possible in respect of international extradition cases.

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Representative Experience

  • Acted for a UAE resident, successfully defending her against an extradition case application by the Government of Norway in respect of money laundering and tax evasion before the UAE courts and then again at the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal.
  • Acted for two persons privately in respect of separate requests by Italy and Belgium to extradite the clients there on drug conspiracy charges, which resulted in favourable outcomes.
  • Advised a Dutch-Iranian national on a Netherlands’ request for extradition in Dubai for premeditated murder and secured the refusal of that request.
  • Acting for an Indian national in opposing an extradition case request from Australia on charges of corruptly receiving, giving and offering or facilitating a bribe and resisting through a successful appeal, with the case being discharged.
  • Secured the release of a Moroccan national from Dutch international extradition cases proceedings for various counts, including drug trafficking, arms and money laundering charges.
  • Acted and represented a South-East Asian national accused of bribery and extortion in opposition to an Australian request for extradition in Dubai, leading to the UAE government’s denial of inter-country demands.
  • Acting for an Italian individual in relation to a request for extradition case from Italy on grounds of membership and leadership of an armed criminal gang, succeeding in proving that none of the formal requirements for the extradition law were satisfied.
  • Acted for a Spanish citizen resisting an extradition case from Spain to answer charges of drug trafficking, which was refused on the basis of incomplete paperwork.
  • Represented a Brazilian national in resisting several extradition case law requests by proving that the requests failed to meet the UAE’s requirements for extradition in Dubai.