Dutchman, 24, to be extradited for economic crimes

A court has ordered the extradition to the Netherlands of a 24-year-old Dutch national, where he will be charged with participation in a criminal organisation, money laundering and forgery in a case involving Bitcoin, a supposedly secure electronic "cryptocurrency."

Inspector Yvonne Farrugia presented Richard Alexander Kroon before Magistrate Charmaine Galea on the strength of a European Arrest Warrant.

Kroon's lawyers Gianella Demarco, Gianluca Caruana Curran and Lucio Sciriha did not contest the extradition order. but requested that Kroon be held at a youth offenders' facility until his extradition.

The court upheld this request.

Inspector Yvonne Farrugia prosecuted.