Over the weekend APA asked us to put the request in writing, which we did on Monday.

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For the past five years he has been fighting an extradition request from the American authorities which want to try him on US soil.

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The Italian courts cannot compel her to return for the retrial but they could request her extradition - at which point it would be up to the US authorities to determine her fate, our correspondent says.

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