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Shaun Walker in Warsaw, Ashifa Kassam in Budapest and Jakub Krupa in London

Poland says it expects US to extradite ex-minister who fled from Hungary

Zbigniew Ziobro holds a document while speaking to journalists with microphones and cameras around him.
Poland's former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro has confirmed he has fled from Hungary to the United States Photograph: Robert Kowalewski/Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Reuters

Poland has said it expects Washington to extradite a former justice minister wanted on criminal charges after reports emerged that he had fled to the US from Hungary, where the former prime minister Viktor Orbán had granted him asylum.

“You can’t hide these days. You can flee, you can delay it for a while, but eventually your options run out,” Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, said on Monday in reference to Zbigniew Ziobro.

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