[4] His dissertation, subsequently published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute, concerned problems of drug control in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.
[1] Kai Ambos served as a judge in the district court in Göttingen for more than ten years, his appointment taking effect on 24 March 2006.
More than ten years after the official indictment, on 16 November 2012, the case ended, on appeal, with an acquittal for Markač and his co-defendants, by a majority verdict of the panel judges.
This controversy is part of a broader investigation into Luis Hermosilla, a powerful and influential Chilean lawyer accused of handling illicit funds, including potential money laundering, to defend former Interior Minister Andres Chadwick; Chadwick faced allegations of human rights violations during the presidency of Sebastian Pinera, particularly related to his role during the social unrest known as the "Estallido Social" in 2019.
Hermosilla allegedly used funds provided by businessman Daniel Sauer to pay Ambos for a legal report that was crucial in Chadwick's defense during his constitutional accusation.
He also stated that he thought "Gotovina was a professional soldier" who sought to minimize civilian casualties and war damages (referring to documents used during the trial), and that "he couldn't see a butcher of Serbs in Markac either."
[13][14] In 2012 Kai Ambos argued that the "misuse" by the Ecuadorian government of its London embassy to protect Julian Assange from prosecution in Sweden in respect of rape charges was a breach of human rights.
Pointing out that Assange had been able to arrange matters so that it had taken three English courts a year and a half to reach the point at which they were about to extradite Assange, Ambos went on to highlight ways in which the parties had been able to politicise the affair, and he set out ways in which the case highlighted that in practice the European Arrest Warrant system was being implemented very much more robustly in some member states than in others.