EXTRADITION
Popa’s Endgame
Police arrested Nicolae Popa, a Rumanian fugitive, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Jakarta. His extradition is awaiting a decision by President Yudhoyono.
April 7, 2010
ARMED with an arrest warrant and a photograph and telephone number of the wanted man, seven police officers cane to Grand Hyatt Hotel in Central Jakarta. That morning, December 2 last year, hotel guests were enjoying their breakfast at Grand Café at the five-star hotel’s lobby when the plainclothes officers seized a Rumanian among them.
The police officers’ arrival didn’t disturb the breakfast as they didn’t come in police uniform. As t
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