Under the extradition law - the Solicitor General acts as the attorney for the US government so he has to be fully conversant with the facts and convinced of the validity of the request.

Peyreffite said that he feels it is unfair to the accused that the news knows the facts of case, before the extradition request goes through its due process.

We note, though, that there's an arrest warrant for Bennett in the territory of Puerto Rico dated July 2015, and an indictment for 7 counts of money laundering from a Puerto Rico Grand Jury.

The charges date back to 2013 when an undercover DEA agent asked Bennett to launder money from Drug Trafficking Organizations based in Colombia and Puerto Rico. The figures discussed were in the millions of dollars, and the first installment was delivered in May of 2015. That's when the undercover agent claims he took 250 thousand US dollars in a backpack to a meeting with Bennett at the Riverside Tavern. He claims Bennett had required a 20% commission to process the transaction.

He says he handed the money over to Bennett - who - under surveillance by the US funded Anti Drug Unit then went to Slingshot Signs. This business plays a role in the whole operation since Bennett allegedly told the agent that he would be using it to launder the money. In fact, he said that he would be buying the business for 5 million US dollars - when it was valued at three million, so that more money could be laundered. The owner Karim Berges says he knows nothing about that. He says his business has been up for sale for some time. He says Bennett had expressed interest in his company some years ago - but the sale didn't materialize.