Britain’s “Most Needed” woman is due to be flown again to the UK in the subsequent few days after dropping her combat towards extradition.
Sarah Panitzke had requested Spanish judges to reject a UK extradition utility, which might have seen her serve her eight-year jail sentence over a multi-million pound VAT fraud in Spain.
Nonetheless judges rejected the enchantment and the woman is now serving her last days in jail close to Madrid earlier than starting her jail time period in Britain, Mail On-line studies.
The 48-year-old may have two months taken off her time due to the times she has already spent behind bars in Spain.
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Panitzke’s arrest on the finish of February made headlines in the UK and Spain as she grew to become the one woman to function on the Nationwide Crime Company’s Most Needed Checklist.
The Yorkshire-born fraudster had been residing for seven years with pretend Italian ID named Antonietta Argiulo, it was revealed right now.
She had been hiding out in a three-bed maisonette simply outdoors the small city of Santa Barbara in the province of Tarragona south of Barcelona.
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Defence attorneys battled towards her extradition to the UK by claiming she had sturdy hyperlinks to Spain and had lived there for the reason that mid-nineties.
In addition they stated she had married a neighborhood man 17 years in the past, who had a life expectancy of simply 10 years due to a liver transplant – that means he wouldn’t have the option to go to her in the UK.
A courtroom supply stated: “Sarah’s extradition has not occurred but however it’s going to happen inside days.”
Panitzke was sentenced to eight years in jail in August 2013 for laundering a whopping £1 billion in an enormous cell phone VAT fraud after she vanished throughout her trial at at Kingston Crown Court docket.
