Bamako, Jan 22, 2019 (AFP) – A former officer with Slovak intelligence service SIS has been abducted from his home in the Malian capital Bamako, his Malian lawyer and supporters told AFP on Tuesday. “Lubos Kosik, my Slovak-nationality client, an ex-officer in his homeland, was abducted last Tuesday by armed men at his home in Bamako,” his lawyer Youssouf Keita said, adding that he had filed a lawsuit. “Taking into account elements presented by Slovakia, Malian justice rejected the extradition demand,” a Malian judicial source told AFP, adding that Bamako was in no way involved in his abduction last week. “He always said he bore no responsibility” for the 1995 kidnapping, Desert told AFP. We are asking if this is an Slovakian-ordered operation” as a means of “illegally obtaining an extradition already refused by Malian justice,” Desert speculated.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 22, 2019 21:11 UTC