‘NatWest Three’ banker David Bermingham argues that businesses and executives hugely underestimate the risks of being drawn into a heavy-handed US justice system

Extradition is basically a minority sport: it tends not to affect too many people. But when it does, its impact is disproportionate. I want people to be able to understand the nature of the risk facing all of us and, in particular, what I like to regard as a conversion on the US-led model of criminal and civil enforcement.