Legal Opinion
United States v. Firtash
District Court, E.D. Illinois
Decided June 21, 2019No. 13 CR 515PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REBECCA R. PALLMEYER, United States District Judge
Defendants Dmitry Firtash and Andras Knopp were indicted in 2013 on charges *877that they made use of United States financial institutions to bribe Indian public officials. Allegedly, these bribes were intended to secure approvals for a mining project in India (hereinafter "the Project"), many products of which would then be sold to a company headquartered in Chicago. Neither Defendant has appeared in court to answer these charges. Firtash, a Ukrainian citizen, currently resides in Austria, where extradition proceedings are pending. Knopp, a…
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