NIZHNY NOVGOROD, 14 Sep. The Supreme Court of Mordovia left without consideration the petition to expel the American Paul Whelan, convicted of espionage to the United States, and sent it to the Ministry of Justice, the press service of the court told RIA Novosti. the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to collect the necessary information in accordance with the provisions of the international treaty of the Russian Federation, as well as to preliminary agree on the issue of transferring the convict with the competent authority of the United States of America, «the agency was told in court. to consider his petition for expulsion to the United States, his lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov told RIA Novosti. «In any case, I will appeal the court decision. The court just washed its hands, stepped aside and refused to make a decision,» said the lawyer. Earlier, Vladimir Zherebenkov told the agency that consideration move The sale is scheduled for September 27th. Then another lawyer for Whelan, Olga Karlova, clarified to the agency that the judge decided to prepare the case and set a new date. Prior to this, lawyers have repeatedly raised the issue of pardoning Whelan or exchanging him for someone from the Russians. However, after the meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, on which Whelan had pinned his hopes, the former marine said that he no longer expects such an outcome.
The lawyer told why Whelan does not want to sit in a Russian prison In addition, in early June, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that there was no reason to include Whelan in the possible lists for the exchange of prisoners. of the loudest last year. And at the same time — one of the many painful points in relations between Russia and the United States. The plot of the accusation in the Whelan case has not been disclosed: from the press release of the FSB it followed only that he was detained in Moscow at the end of 2018 during an espionage campaign. The defense claims that the American was a victim of a provocation: he was handed a flash drive on which he allegedly expected to see a photo from a tourist trip to the Moscow region Sergiev Posad. The accused himself said in his last word that he was not engaged in espionage.
Whelan, convicted in Russia, asked Biden to return him to the USA
