Austrian authorities were paid one million Euros in exchange for refusal to extradite steroid dealer to US

Recently a huge steroid empire was busted in Austria. It was discovered that this company received 40 million Euros due to illicit distribution of steroids. Mihael Karner was claimed to be the leader of the steroid empire. The USA asked Austria to extradite this man to the US. But Mihael Karner wasn’t extradited. The steroid dealer paid one million Euros to Austrian authorities that sent him to Slovenia, his native country.
Slovenia’s laws are not the same as Austrian’s ones. According to the Constitution of this country, it is prohibited to extradite Slovenian citizens to another country. Mihael Karner is a lucky individual. If he had been extradited to the USA, he would have been probably sentenced to 40 years in jail.
Federal prosecutors started the investigation connected with this steroid empire in 2005. The steroid empire began to function earlier. Federal prosecutors found that since 2000 till 2008 the company got 40 million Euros due to illicit sale of steroids.
Federal prosecutors determined in 2005 that Mihael Karner and his wife were involved in illicit distribution of steroids but they couldn’t prosecute them because the Karners were in Austria. But later steroid laws in Austria were modified due to suppression by the US. Furthermore, the US promoted the arrest of Mihael Karner and his wife.
However the US attempts to enforce European countries and other countries of the world to extradite steroid dealers to the USA, it doesn’t have great success in this area. But the persons that were implicated in “Musclebear” and “British Dragon” were extradited from Cyprus and Thailand to the USA. That time the US had a victory.
As for Mihael Karner, the USA hoped that the extradition would be successful. That’s why the US was shocked, when it was learnt that Karner arrived to Slovenia safely. Thus, the USA was defeated this time in the war on steroids.