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United States and Croatia Sign Bilateral Agreements Enhancing Law Enforcement Cooperation
justice.gov ^ | December 10, 2019 | DOJ

Posted on 12/14/2019 12:33:36 PM PST by ransomnote

Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

United States and Croatia Sign Bilateral Agreements Enhancing Law Enforcement Cooperation

On Tuesday, United States Attorney General William P. Barr and Croatia’s Minister of Justice Dražen Bošnjaković signed an extradition and mutual legal assistance agreement on behalf of their nations at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

Attorney General Barr signed the bilateral U.S.-Croatia extradition and mutual legal assistance instruments, which were negotiated this year by the Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser and the Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs.

Croatia MOJ and AG Barr Signing Croatia’s Minister of Justice Dražen Bošnjaković and U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr signing bilateral agreements “I commend the negotiators from our countries for their work on U.S.-Croatia law enforcement cooperation agreements, and for expeditiously preparing these texts for signature before Croatia begins its EU presidency next month,” said Attorney General Barr. “The instruments will further strengthen our bilateral law-enforcement relationship, improving the ability to extradite fugitives and exchange evidence needed for prosecutions.”

“This is a great achievement which will further strengthen relations between our two countries,” said Minister of Justice Bošnjaković. “These two new agreements respond to the challenges of fighting cross-border crime in a more efficient manner.”

Present at the signing were officials from the U.S. Department of State and the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia.

Croatia MOJ and AG Barr Croatia’s Minister of Justice Dražen Bošnjaković and U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr The new agreements enhance bilateral relations by affording both nations with better information-sharing and cooperative capabilities. The new extradition agreement modernizes the extradition relationship between the countries, which had been governed by a 1901 treaty. The instrument provides a dual-criminality basis for extradition, and it streamlines the procedures to be followed in pursuing extradition. The mutual legal assistance instrument, the first such bilateral instrument between the countries, will better enable prosecutors to exchange information facilitating the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of crime. It will improve cooperation in the fight against terrorism, organized crime, corruption, cybercrime, and other serious transnational criminal offenses.

The instruments stem from the legal framework of the U.S.-European Union Agreements on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance signed on June 25, 2003, prior to Croatia entering the EU.

Component(s): Criminal Division Criminal - Office of International Affairs Office of the Attorney General Press Release Number: 19-1373


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: croatia; doj; europe; misc; police

1 posted on 12/14/2019 12:33:36 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

I wonder what He and Durham found over there?


2 posted on 12/14/2019 12:39:06 PM PST by fedupjohn (Waiting for Trump's new Caribbean Resort "Club Gitmo" to open for business!)
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To: ransomnote

Of no importance.

Unless Barr has uncovered something that makes it important.

Like more laundered money maybe?


3 posted on 12/14/2019 12:40:38 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: old curmudgeon

I think these things leak out. Note that the Dems have been claiming Barr has no “excuse” for foreign travel, he’s sneaking around etc. Releasing information like this helps refute those absurd accusations.


4 posted on 12/14/2019 12:42:15 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

I’m not sure what good this will do. If the president asks Croatia for help with a law enfocement matter the Democrats will try to impeach him for that as well.


5 posted on 12/14/2019 12:47:51 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: ransomnote

Yes it does make it plain that he is not joyriding on the taxpayer’s dime.

But it may also have another purpose; that is to jerk the ciminal’s chain.

Barr is far from stupid. He no doubt has taken note of what happens every time President Trump jerks their chain. Idiots like Biden, Clapper and Brennan go nuts and blab something incriminating.


6 posted on 12/14/2019 12:49:33 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: old curmudgeon
Unless Barr has uncovered something that makes it important.

Barr doesn't have to uncover anything. DemonicRATS will out themselves.

7 posted on 12/14/2019 12:58:31 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ransomnote

Isn’t that the same kind of agreement we have with Ukraine that the Dems accused Pres. Trump of with collusion with them for asking them about 2016 political wrong doings?


8 posted on 12/14/2019 1:04:42 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Texas Eagle

Croatia joined the EU in order to get EU funds (aka: German handouts) for its perenially recessed economy. Now the REST of the bill is coming due, in the shap of ridiculous EU laws on stuff like “Das Environment”, and PC-leftist multi-cultural CRAP oozing like a green slime out of EU-TV commercials that have been repurposed for the Croatian TV.

I see more and more of it every Summer I go over there and frankly it makes me ill.


9 posted on 12/14/2019 1:06:22 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx

Hopefully this will help root out corruption and demonicRAT influence (but I repeat myself) there. Do you got there for work or to vacation or visit family?


10 posted on 12/14/2019 1:09:35 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

To visit friends and family. We have a Summer home on one of the islands that I inherited (the home, NOT the island! *LOL*). Also as I am originally from there I speak the language fluently.


11 posted on 12/14/2019 1:23:58 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: ransomnote

We need access to something over there.


12 posted on 12/14/2019 1:31:49 PM PST by zeebee
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To: Simon Foxx

Ah. I thought I detected a slight accent. Keep us posted as to how things change.


13 posted on 12/14/2019 1:35:58 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

+1


14 posted on 12/14/2019 1:46:08 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: ransomnote
Just D@mn. I was gonna *PING* you. Obviously of importance given results in Ukraine.

We are seeing another stopper being slowly pulled out of the bottom of the Swamp.

15 posted on 12/14/2019 2:01:45 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Simon Foxx

Was there in Zagreb visiting family in 84.

The government there at the time shocked me and shaped my political beliefs from then on.


16 posted on 12/14/2019 2:09:49 PM PST by lizma2
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To: ransomnote

Fedzilla is working on law enforcement between Croatia and us. Meanwhile Chicago is more dangerous that Iraq, and the bay area is in near anarchy.


17 posted on 12/14/2019 2:18:36 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Texas Eagle

Accent? Not here my friend - not unless I want to ‘affect’ one!

I have no discernable accent when I speak English having lived in each region of the USA, (though perhaps every few years someone ‘hears’ a little East Coast in my speech as I grew up in Queens, NY. I HATE when that happens! That is one region of the country I do NOT want to be associated with! *LOL*) I came to the US young enough to lose the foreign accent completely.

The Croatian language I speak with (as I am told by relatives) a “perfect Northern Adriatic Istrian” accent - though when I speak the closely related Serbian language with other relatives in Serbia across the broder, they say I do have a bit of an “American accent”! *LOL* But then, I have an “ear” for pronunciation and a bit of a talent for mimicry ... hence one of my past careers as a US military and diplomatic interpreter in that part of the world ... but that’s another story ...)


18 posted on 12/14/2019 3:45:19 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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To: lizma2

And just think - the government of communist Yugoslavia was a much, much milder version of what the people of Russia and its ‘captive states’ had to put up with for a half century.

And now our Academia and ‘progressive’ morons would like to bring it all over here (because, you know, those other regimes didn’t try their communist experiment ‘right’, but our own ‘Progs’ will do a better job of it, like - fer sure!)


19 posted on 12/14/2019 3:50:26 PM PST by Simon Foxx
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