British trader wanted in US on insider trading charges WINS fight against extradition after landmark ruling experts say will send 'shockwaves' though America's legal system

UK Supreme Court judges have blocked the extradition of a British-Lebanese securities trader to the US to face trial for alleged insider trading in a rare act of defiance against American prosecutors. A leading extradition lawyer said the ruling would send 'shockwaves' through the US Department of Justice, which has historically relied on the 'unequal' extradition treaty between the UK and America to force the extradition of British suspects. Joseph El-Khouri was charged in New York in 2019 alongside five others, accused of being part of an insider trading ring One prominent critic of the US/UK extradition treaty was Dr Mike Lynch, known as 'Britain's Bill Gates' One prominent critic of the rules was Dr Mike Lynch, known as 'Britain's Bill Gates', who was taken in chains to America over fraud charges relating to the 2011 sale of his software firm, Autonomy, to US computing giant Hewlett-Packard. Computer hacker Gary McKinnon and Julian Assange both faced long battles to avoid being extradited to the USA US authorities refused a British request to extradite killer driver Anne Sacoolas and she was handed a suspended sentence by a judge at the Old Bailey while staying in her own country El-Khouri's lawyer Richard Cannon said the ruling's focus on where the alleged criminal conduct took place 'represents an important check on overreach by the U.S. authorities in the way the US/UK extradition treaty operates'.