The Senate early today unanimously ratified an extradition treaty between the U.S. and the U.K., three years after it was signed, according to the U.S. embassy in London. The treaty, which speeds extradition of prisoners between the two countries, was negotiated in 2003. The British have granted the U.S. some of the pact's benefits pending ratification by the Senate. The lack of U.S. approval had become a political issue in the U.K., highlighted by protests in July over the extradition of three British bankers accused of fraud in the Enron Corp. scandal. The British bankers were sent to face trial in Houston after fighting extradition for three years. They pleaded not guilty to fraud charges July 14. The bankers are accused of bilking their former employer, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc's Greenwich NatWest subsidiary, of millions of dollars from the sale of an Enron off-the-books partnership. ...
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