The son of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Artem Uss, accused of money laundering and circumventing sanctions, could have been assisted by the Russian special services during his escape. This was reported by the Italian publication Corriere della Sera with reference to the investigators in the case, Meduza paid attention to the publication.
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On March 22, Uss escaped from house arrest in an apartment in the town of Basiglio, south of Milan. According to Corriere della Sera, the investigation suggests that during the escape he used several cars to get to the Swiss or Slovenian border by land. On March 26, La Repubblica wrote that Uss had left Italy on forged documents.
On March 21, a court in Milan approved the extradition of a Russian to the United States. The man was detained in Italy at the request of the US authorities in October 2022 while trying to fly to Istanbul. A month later, Uss was placed under house arrest. In the United States, he and four other Russians are suspected of smuggling military technology, purchasing dual-use electronics, and organizing schemes to sell Venezuelan oil through front companies.
Russia is also seeking Uss's extradition to their homeland. In October 2022, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put him on the wanted list, and the court arrested him in absentia.
Earlier, in a similar way, the Russian authorities tried to extradite the co-owner of the BTC-E crypto exchange Alexander Vinnik and hacker Yevgeny Nikulin to their homeland. The first was arrested in Greece in 2017 at the request of the FBI, after which a criminal case was opened against him in Russia. As a result, Vinnik was extradited to France, where in 2020 he was sentenced to five years in prison in a money laundering case. Nikulin, suspected of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring, was detained in the Czech Republic at the request of US authorities in 2016. In 2018, the hacker was extradited to the USA.