Overview

• Germany’s Hamburg Higher Regional Court will soon decide whether to hand Ochsenknecht over to Austria under a European Arrest Warrant.
• Innsbruck prosecutors accuse the actor of aggravated fraud for failing to pay a €14,000 hotel bill from 2021.
• His ex-partner Yeliz Koç paid the outstanding invoice this week, yet Austrian authorities pressed ahead with the extradition bid.
• Unconfirmed reports of a cell search over an alleged smuggled phone in his Hamburg detention have yielded no device.
• If approved, he faces extradition within ten days to appear before an Innsbruck judge who may reconsider his detention.