 The Vienna Regional Criminal Court rejected the U.S. request for the extradition of Firtash on 30 April 2015.Judge Christoph Bauer said that the request for extradition was "politically motivated".Bauer said that in the year since Firtash's arrest in Vienna, the U.S. authorities had not provided sufficient evidence that Firtash paid bribes in India, and in particular had not provided witness statements in support of its assertions.