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An alleged drug trafficker landed in Dublin after being transferred from Dubai aboard an Irish government jet.
The legal mechanism behind that transfer is extradition: the formal process by which one country surrenders a wanted person to another jurisdiction to stand trial.
The suspect is Daniel Kinahan, identified by Irish authorities as an organised crime figure. What extradition actually takes Extradition sounds procedural.
In practice, it is one of the harder tools in international law enforcement to complete successfully. The country seeking the suspect must lodge a formal legal request.
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