Fayad and Firtash
To get a better idea of what transpired in Prague in the case of Ali Fayad, it's useful to consider the case of Dmytro Firtash. He's a Ukrainian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin and to Viktor Yanukovich. As a co-owner of RosUkrEnergo, he had a monopoly on Russian imports of natural gas into Ukraine. By all accounts, he is a really bigwig in Ukraine business and politics. On the same day that Arseniy Yatsenyuk visited the White House in Feb. 2014, Firtash was arrested in Austria on a U.S. warrant. The charge was conspiracy to commit bribery in India. A Ukraine citizen was arrested in Austria on a U.S. warrant for a crime allegedly committed in India. That's called extraterritorial jurisdiction. Unlike in the Fayad case, the Austrian justice minister couldn't intervene, and a court denied extradition, finding that the charges were politically motivated. According to some reports, the U.S. was trying to coerce Firtash into squealing on Putin.
Glossary of difficult words
to transpire - to occur; to happen;bigwig - an important person, usually in a particular sphere;
extraterritorial - (of a law or decree) valid outside a country's territory;
to coerce - to persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats;
to squeal on someone - to inform on the activities of someone to the police or a person in authority.