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Why were U.S. extradition requests for Robert L. Vesco unsuccessful?
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U.S. extradition requests for Robert L. Vesco were unsuccessful because the countries where he resided, including Costa Rica, The Bahamas, Nicaragua, and Antigua, did not grant these requests. Vesco allegedly used political bribery in these nations. Furthermore, Cuban authorities, where Vesco lived from around 1984, refused to extradite him to the United States, even after he was jailed there for economic crimes.1