Statement by Dan K. Webb and Matthew R. Carter of Winston & Strawn LLP, Counsel for Dmitry Firtash

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, March 12, 2024, marks a decade since Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian national, was arrested in Vienna, Austria at the request of the United States government—all based on a 2013 indictment out of Chicago related to a project in India that allegedly began in 2005 and never went forward. The U.S. government requested that Austrian authorities arrest Firtash and extradite him to the U.S. even though Firtash had never stepped foot in the U.S., doesn’t speak English, and