The World - News from Aug. 25, 1989

A U.S. magistrate in Boston ordered that fugitive financier George Koskotas be extradited to Greece to face charges of embezzling more than $200 million from the Bank of Crete. Magistrate Joyce Alexander rejected Koskotas’ arguments that he would face possible assassination if returned to his homeland and that the charges are political, a category of offense that is not extraditable under a U.S.-Greek treaty. She also said that Koskotas, 35, raised no defense to bar his extradition. Koskotas is at the center of a financial scandal that brought down the government of former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in May.