US rarely has success, when it comes to extradition of steroid dealers

Lately a large steroid ring was busted in Austria. It was discovered that this company got 40 million Euros due to illegal sale of steroids. Mihael Karner was identified as the leader of the steroid ring. The USA asked Austria to extradite this person to the US. But the steroid dealer wasn’t extradited. This man paid one million Euros to Austrian authorities that sent him to Slovenia, his native country.
Slovenia’s laws are not the same as Austrian’s ones. According to the Constitution of this country, it is forbidden to extradite Slovenian citizens to another country. Mihael Karner turned out to be a lucky man. If he had been extradited to the USA, he would have probably gone to 40 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors started the investigation connected with this steroid empire in 2005. The steroid empire started to function earlier. Federal prosecutors set that since 2000 till 2008 the company got 40 million Euros due to illegal sale of steroids.
Federal prosecutors found in 2005 that Mihael Karner and his wife were involved in illegal distribution of steroids but they couldn’t prosecute them because the Karners were in Austria. But later steroid laws in Austria were changed due to suppression by the US. Moreover, the US induced the arrest of Mihael Karner and his wife.
Although the US puts efforts to enforce European countries and other countries of the world to extradite distributors of steroids to the USA, it doesn’t have significant success in this area. But those who were involved in “Musclebear” and “British Dragon” were extradited from Cyprus and Thailand to the USA. That time the US celebrated its victory.
As for Mihael Karner, the USA supposed that he would be extradited. That’s why it was a real shock for the US, when it was found that Karner reached Slovenia safely. So, the USA was defeated this time in the struggle against steroids.