Australia to Extradite Former US Marine Pilot for Allegedly Training Chinese Pilots

Australia to Extradite Former US Marine Pilot for Allegedly Training Chinese Pilots
A US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor stealth fighter aircraft is parked inside a hangar during the inaugural Trilateral Exercise between the US Air Force, United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and the French Air Force at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia on December 15, 2015. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
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The Australian federal government has approved a request to extradite a former U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot to the United States where he faces conspiracy charges over allegations he unlawfully exported defence services to China.

Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, who held both Australian and American citizenship, was accused of breaking U.S. arms control laws by training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers on three occasions in 2010 and 2012.

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