SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia’s attorney general has decided an ex-United States (US) Marine pilot accused of illegally training foreign military will be extradited from Australia to the US, with the pilot’s family slamming the news as “inhumane”.
Daniel Edmund Duggan was arrested in Australia in October 2022 at the request of the US government, which accuses him of breaking arms control laws.
It alleges he illegally trained foreign military pilots between 2010 and 2012, after he left the Marines. Duggan has denied the charges.Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said yesterday that Duggan “should be extradited to the US to face prosecution for the offences of which he is accused”.
“Duggan was given the opportunity to provide representations as to why he should not be surrendered to the US. In arriving at my decision, I took into consideration all material in front of me,” he said in a statement.
Dreyfus would not comment further on the timing of the extradition.
Duggan’s wife Saffrine said in a statement the family was “shocked and absolutely heartbroken”.
