Hi there, welcome to another MLEX podcast. We're so glad you could make it. I'm James Panicki

from Emlex's Asia Pacific team and this week, the human face of US antitrust prosecutions.

What of our DC-based reporters, Max Filion, has obtained court reports that offer some insight

into the unforgiving world of US extradition requests targeting foreign citizens charged

with criminal cartel offences. There have been three such extraditions so far, all of them pointing to the very high price

to be paid by those who engage in price fixing and not just in the United States of America.

The methodology of these extraditions also shatters any misconceptions that might still be out

there that cartelists are treated with kid gloves when

compared to others facing criminal charges.

Most importantly though, the extraditions reveal that it's not easy to escape the long

arm of US justice.

Max Villian joins me now from Washington DC.

Now Max, give me a quick overview of the cases of Eun-Su Kim and Maria

Ullings. So, Kim was charged in 2015 on market allocation and bid rigging charges. He had participated

in a conspiracy to rig bids for instrument panel clusters, which are better known as

dashboards that were later installed in cars that were sold in the United States.

And Maria Olings was charged in 2010 with participating in conspiracy to fix prices of air cargo services.

Her conspiracy affected shipments of U.S. Air Force parts, and she was in charge of pricing at Martin Air when she participated in the conspiracy.

We should also point out that they are both of a certain age. Kim is 59. Ulling's is 66.

They were charged in the U.S., as you're pointing out, but they weren't at the U.S. at the time.

So do we know at this stage whether they had, in fact, left the country to avoid charges?

Is that something that we know?

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