The lawyer leading the fight to prevent Alex Tasker from being deported to the United States to face money laundering charges insists the appeal against the extradition should be allowed, despite the prosecution’s suggestion that it was not filed in time.King’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim made the submission on Tuesday before the Court of Appeal, insisting that even if the appeal was “out of time” under the Extradition Act, it was not under the Magistrate’s Court Act.Last September, Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes ruled that Tasker, a former senior executive at the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd (ICBL), be extradited to the US to face charges that between August 2015 and April 2016, he conspired with others to launder money from outside the country in violation of US law.Pilgrim, who along with Neville Reid and Lani Daisley are representing Tasker, subsequently appealed the decision.However, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale and Senior State Counsel Oliver Thomas, who are representing the United States in the matter, contended that Pilgrim filed the appeal after the stipulated 15-day period had expired.
