Kirk extradition hearing next week
From
HUGH NEVILL
NZPA staff correspondent Washington
John Kirk, the former member of Parliament for Sydenham, will come before a Federal magistrate, Mr John Tolle, in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday for a formal extradition hearing. An assistant United States Attorney, Mr Bill Alexander, said he made the request for the hearing after receiving a red-ribboned, 7cm-high dossier from the New Zealand Embassy detailing the charges against Mr Kirk, who is a son of a former Prime Minister, Norman Kirk.
The extradition charges, certified at a hearing in New Zealand last month and presented at a preliminary hearing in Dallas on July 2, accuse Mr Kirk of leaving New Zealand with thousands of dollars worth of cash, traveller’s cheques, and gold krugerrands in contravention of bankruptcy laws.
Mr Alexander said that the dossier he had received also included affidavits relating to a number of other charges. Mr Kirk, aged 38, nominated as an Independent in the Miramar electorate in last year’s snap election after abandoning Sydenham,
flew with Mrs Kirk to the United States days before polling. They spent about six months in the Los .Angeles area before moving to Dallas, where he sold memberships in singles clubs and Mrs Kirk found work as a temporary secre-
tary. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Mr Kirk on June 19 after he met a United States, customs agent to negotiate the return of airline tickets, krugerrands, and pocket watches he had surrendered for their investigations. He has been held in the Dallas County Jail since.
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