Pole to be extradited

A Christchurch man has lost his final bid to stay in the country after a decade-long battle to avoid extradition to his native Poland.

Slawomir Ryszard Bujak's legal wrangling began when Polish authorities claimed he was a multimillion-dollar fraudster and issued a freezing order on his property which was registered in New Zealand as a foreign restraining order.

Bujak challenged the orders as far as the Supreme Court, which rejected Bujak's last-ditch attempt to argue that the Minister of Internal Affairs had failed to take humanitarian concerns into account in not blocking his extradition.