Wife of Axio Labs' Brian Wainstein Fled to Ireland After Skipping Bail in England

Siobhan Hatton, the ex-wife of Axio Labs founder Brian Wainstein, fled to Ireland after skipping bail in England. The English courts had recently agreed to extradite her to the United States to stand trial in Tennessee. Instead of surrendering to U.S. Marshals in London, she made her escape to her native Ireland.

Unfortunately for Hatton, she was immediately arrested in a hospital by the Garda Síochána (Ireland's National Police Service) extradition unit. The escape attempt was quite costly for Hatton. She forfeited the entire amount of a £250,000 ($386,000) cash bail paid by an unnamed male associate.

On the bright side, Hatton has likely bought some extra time before she is extradited to the United States. Her extradition was imminent and U.S. authorities expected to have her in custody on U.S. soil by now. Instead, U.S. prosecutors will have to wait a little longer. They may have to start the extradition proceedings all over again in Ireland now.

A federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted Wainstein and Hatton in 2010. Hatton was first arrested on an international arrest warrant in London on September 2012. Wainstein was arrested in Cape Town, South Africa on January 2013. While both the United Kingdom and South Africa have extradition treaties with the United States, the process can apparently take several years.

Hatton allegedly helped Wainstein run his illegal multi-million dollar steroid business for several years. Wainstein developed a reputation as one of the major players in the illicit world of black market steroids with GenXXL and Axio Labs. Federal prosecutors alleged that Axio Labs generated over $8 million in sales during the four-year period between 2004 and 2008. 

Hatton isn't the only co-defendant who has thus far thwarted the U.S. extradition attempts. Wainstein remains a free man. He is out on $50,000 bail chilling in his luxury condominium in an exclusive suburb of Cape Town while he fights extradition to the U.S.

U.S. prosecutors are not the only ones unhappy about the fact that Wainstein remains out of their reach.  Wainstein has outstayed his welcome among his neighbors at the V&A Luxury Waterfront Complex. At least one neighbor can't stand the fact that a fugitive steroid dealer is strutting around Cape Town.

“He has done [four] months prison in Ireland and is wanted by Cypriot Interpol section for illegal steroid manufacturing and trafficking. He is wanted in USA, France, Germany, the UK and several other states for the same reasons,” neighbor Louis Matthey wrote in an email to the apartment manager. “Benjamin [Ben Benjamin is one of Wainstein's aliases] still struts around Cape Town with his head held high and is probably active trying to poison our sporting South African youth as we speak.”

In spite of all the delays, the extradition of both Wainstein and Hatton seems unavoidable. Both parties are simply doing their best to delay the process as long as possible. It makes no difference to the United States;it has unlimited resources and unlimited time to pursue its war on steroids where the long arm of the law takes them.

U.S. prosecutors expect South African courts to agree to the extradition request very soon. In preparation for what seems inevitable, Wainstein has hired steroid lawyer J. Clark Baird to represent his interests in Tennessee. Baird has requested grand jury transcripts and other discovery to prepare his defense of the man known as “The Steroid King”.

We just wonder who the United States will take into custody first. Will it be Wainstein or his ex-wife Hatton?

Source:

Foy, K. (October 20, 2015). Irish woman charged for 'involvement in €6.5m steroid enterprise' loses €342k bail cash. Retrieved from http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/irish-woman-charged-for-involvement-in-65m-steroid-enterprise-loses-342k-bail-cash-34124002.html