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The Issue of Extradition of Criminal Suspects All Over the World For almost ten years, Noel Heath and Glenroy Matthew, bette

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问题             The Issue of Extradition of Criminal Suspects All Over the World
    For almost ten years, Noel Heath and Glenroy Matthew, better known as "Zambo" and "Bobo", have escaped attempts by the United States to extradite them from their homes on the pretty little island of St Kitts to face charges of cocaine trafficking. Their creative legal team has twice taken the case to the Privy Council in London, still the final appeal court for most of Britain’s former Caribbean colonies. Both times, most recently last November, a panel of British law lords ruled that they should be extradited "with the utmost expedition".
    "Zambo" and "Bobo" are well-connected in St Kitts. They have lived on bail for a decade, before being locked up last month. Their lawyers hit back with a habeas corpus writ, to be heard on January 18th. If that fails, the way is open for officials to put the two on a plane.
    For reasons of principle, or of friendships in tight-knit communities, or both, Caribbean countries have been reluctant to extradite their own nationals. The Caribbean has also become something of a heaven for foreigners wanted elsewhere in the world. This may now change. The next important test comes in May, when the Privy Council will rule on Samuel Knowles, a Bahamian who has held out since 2000 against a charge by a grand jury in Florida.
    Procedural complexities and powerful lawyers may still stop extradition. In September in Belize, Dean Barrow, a lawyer who is also the leader of the parliamentary opposition , hedged an American attempt to extradite a drug suspect. He found mistakes in supporting paperwork, which excluded the use of vital wire-tap evidence.
    Extradition of foreigners, especially to their home country, is often easier. Viktor Kozeny, a Czech-born resident of the Bahamas, has been held in Nassau since October. He is wanted in New York for corruption stemming from the privatisation of Azerbaijan’s oil company, and faces other charges in Prague.
    Mr. Kozeny will fight hard. His lawyers include Philip Davis, a member of parliament for the governing party and former legal partner of the prime minister. Even so, the authorities seem reluctant to grant bail. Perhaps that is because Mr. Kozeny holds a pilot’s licence and Irish and Venezuelan passports. He was once a diplomat for Grenada.
    Non-citizens are sometimes simply expelled. Two Belizean women picked up $ 50,000 each on the Oprah Winfrey Show in October, their reward for spotting an alleged rapist from the United States who was sent home two days later for trial. It is rarely so quick or easy.
The description of Mr. Kozeny’s case shows______.
选项 A、corruption will not be granted bail
B、foreigners can be difficultly extradited to their own countries
C、Mr. Kozeny will be extradited to Czech
D、extradition can be easier for people like him
答案D
解析 推理判断题。根据题干中的人物Kozeny可定位至第五段。该段首句为主题句：通常将外国人引渡回其祖国比较容易。接下来第六段以维克多·寇策的案子为例，说明他似乎很难逃脱被引渡的命运，由此说明前一段中提及的Extradition of foreigners is ofteneasier，故[D]为答案。第六段第三句提到“政府当局不想批准维克多·寇策保释”，随后对其原因做出解释，这与第五段中提到的corruption无关，显然[A]属张冠李戴;[B]与第五段主题句相悖．排除；第五段第二句提到Kozeny出生于捷克，但他是巴哈马居民，从首句中的home country可以判断，他可能会被引渡回巴哈马群岛，并非捷克，故排除[C]。
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