STA, 15 November - The search by the Slovenian police for a 61-year-old fugitive sentenced for fraud is over after 17 years as the Slovenian woman was recently found and arrested in Ghana in cooperation with foreign security authorities. She was extradited from the African country to Slovenia on 13 November and taken to the Ig prison.
The Ljubljana District Court had been searching for the fugitive since 2004, initially as a witness, and later for criminal proceedings for the criminal act of fraud, and in another case for her to serve a prison sentence, also for fraud.
In both cases, a national warrant, an international warrant and a European Arrest Warrant were issued against the fugitive, whose information was also published on the Europol website in 2019 as part of the EU Most Wanted campaign.
In recent years, the case was picked up as a cold case by criminal investigators from the Fugitive Active Search Team of the International Police Collaboration Sector of the General Police Directorate.
After a series of inquiries, it was established that the fugitive was hiding in Ghana. The security authorities in the country informed Slovenia on 27 October that she had been apprehended in the capital of Accra, where she had resided illegally for ten years.
In Monday's press release announcing the extradition, the General Police Directorate praised the cooperation with the authorities in Ghana through the international police collaboration channels provided by Interpol.
