The Swedish government has announced its intention to extradite a Turkish citizen convicted of fraud to Ankara, the first of its kind since Turkey threatened to freeze Stockholm’s NATO bid.

The Swedish Ministry of Justice did not comment on whether the man was on the Turkish list, noting that “Ankara sought his extradition in 2021, long before Sweden applied to join NATO in May.”

Justice Department spokeswoman Angelica Wahlgren said it was “normal and routine.”

Swedish court documents show that “the person involved in the deportation is Okan Kale, who was charged by Turkey with credit card fraud in 2013 and 2016.”

Kale has been in the custody of the Swedish authorities since December 2021. In 2011, he applied for asylum in Sweden, but his application was rejected. In 2014, he was granted refugee status in Italy, and the name of Kale appears in the list of people published by Turkish media that Ankara demands from Sweden to hand over to their authorities.