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An ex-US Marine pilot accused of illegally training China’s military is “eligible” for surrender to the United States, an Australian magistrate ruled on Friday.
Daniel Edmund Duggan was arrested in Australia in October 2022 at the request of the US government, which accuses him of breaking arms control laws.
It alleges he illegally trained Chinese military pilots between 2010 and 2012, after he left the military.
Magistrate Daniel Reiss ordered the 55-year-old Duggan to remain in prison.
He has 15 days to seek a review of the magistrate’s ruling. The decision to extradite will ultimately be made by Australia’s Attorney General.
A highly regarded jet pilot, Duggan spent 12 years in the US Marine Corps, reaching the rank of Major and working as a tactical flight instructor.

Duggan’s wife and mother of his six children, Saffrine Duggan, said the extradition court hearing was “simply about ticking boxes.”
She also said the family would appeal the extradition.
“Now, we respectfully ask the attorney general to take another look at this case and to bring my husband home,” she told a gathering of reporters and supporters outside court.
The pilot has spent 19 months in maximum-security prison since he was arrested in 2022 at his family home in the state of New South Wales.
Duggan moved to Australia in 2002 after leaving the Marines, gaining citizenship and working in an adventure flight company called Top Gun Tasmania.
Prosecutors say Duggan received about nine payments totalling around 88,000 Australian dollars (US$61,000) and international travel from another conspirator for what was sometimes described as “personal development training.”
The indictment says Duggan travelled to the US, China and South Africa, and provided training to Chinese pilots in South Africa.
Duggan has denied the allegations, saying they were political posturing by the United States, which unfairly singled him out.

Duggan’s lawyers had previously argued there is no evidence the Chinese pilots he trained were military, and that he became an Australian citizen in January 2012, before the alleged offences.
The United States government has argued Duggan did not lose his US citizenship until 2016, when he signed a document renouncing it in the US embassy in Beijing.
One of seven co-conspirators in the US indictment is convicted Chinese hacker Su Bin, although Duggan’s lawyers argue the hacking case is unrelated.
Duggan was barred from leaving China in 2014, his lawyer wrote in a filing to the attorney general, and knew Su Bin as an employment broker for Chinese aviation company AVIC.
Su Bin pleaded guilty in 2016 to theft of US military aircraft designs by hacking major US defence contractors.
Reporting by Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Reuters


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Daniel Duggan was arrested in October last year and was accused of illegally providing military training to pilots working for China. Photo: Handout/SCMPOST

Saffrine Duggan speaks outside Downing Central Court in Sydney on Friday. Photo: AP

Daniel Duggan poses for a picture in this undated handout picture. A Sydney court ruled that the former US Marines pilot can be extradited to the US. Photo: Reuters

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Daniel Duggan is accused of illegally providing military training to pilots working for China. Photo: Handout

Former US Marines pilot Daniel Duggan poses for a picture in this undated picture. Photo: Handout via Reuters

Daniel Duggan is being held in a prison in Australia. File photo: Handout

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Daniel Duggan is accused of breaking US law by training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers. Photo: Handout

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Daniel Duggan was arrested in October last year and was accused of illegally providing military training to pilots working for China. Photo: Handout

Silverwater Correctional Complex, a prison complex 21km west of central Sydney, where Daniel Duggan is being held. Photo: Handout

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Daniel Duggan is accused by the US of providing military training to pilots working for China. Photo: Handout

The Silverwater Correctional Complex in the Australian state of New South Wales where Duggan is being held. Photo: Handout

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The US government accuses Daniel Duggan of breaking arms control laws, by illegally training Chinese military pilots after he left the military
An Australian magistrate ruled Duggan is eligible for extradition, but the decision to extradite will ultimately be made by Australia’s Attorney General


Daniel Duggan was arrested in Australia in October 2022 at the request of the US government, which accuses him of breaking arms control laws, by illegally training Chinese military pilots after he left the military.


Ex-US Marine accused of training Chinese military pilots ‘eligible’ for extradition, Australian court rules

The US government accuses Daniel Duggan of breaking arms control laws, by illegally training Chinese military pilots after he left the military An Australian magistrate ruled Duggan is eligible for extradition, but the decision to extradite will ultimately be made by Australia’s Attorney General

The US government accuses Daniel Duggan of breaking arms control laws, by illegally training Chinese military pilots after he left the military

An Australian magistrate ruled Duggan is eligible for extradition, but the decision to extradite will ultimately be made by Australia’s Attorney General