Had they traded through Banks with a lesser presence in the US - or domiciled in a country that did not have an extradition treaty with America - the affair might never have seen the light of day.

如果他们通过在美国影响力较弱的银行进行交易——或定居在一个与美国没有签订引渡条约的国家——那么这件事可能永远都不会曝光。

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Garland was arrested in Belfast, Northern Ireland but fled south to the Republic of Ireland after being released for medical leave; Ireland does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S..

Garland在北爱尔兰的贝尔法斯特被逮捕，但在假释就医期间南逃至爱尔兰共和国。爱尔兰和美国之间没有签订引渡条约。

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Completely unknown at the time of his arrest, Mr McKinnon became a symbol of the controversial US-UK extradition treaty, gaining a wealth of celebrity backers as diverse as Terry Waite, Sting and Julie Christie.

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Mr McKinnon's mother Janis Sharp said that while in opposition both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats had condemned the use of the extradition treaty in her son's case.

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His tenure at the Home Office saw the siege at the Libyan People's Bureau in London during which a policewoman was shot, the miners' strike and the forging of an extradition treaty with Spain despite the Gibraltar dispute.

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