BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The government of Argentina's President Javier Milei said on Tuesday that it would extradite an Argentine businessman to face drug trafficking and money laundering charges in the United States, the latest development in a politically explosive case that has tainted an ally of the libertarian president.

Milei’s office said that he had instructed the Foreign Ministry and other officials “to immediately take the administrative and diplomatic steps necessary" to comply with a Supreme Court decision issued earlier Tuesday approving the extradition of the businessman, Fred Machado.

Machado landed in Argentine custody in 2021, months after he fled a raft of charges filed against him in Texas, including drug trafficking, money laundering and wire fraud.

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