The son of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Artem Uss, who fled to Russia from house arrest in Italy, has had his preventive measure changed to a written undertaking not to leave the country. This was reported by Interfax.
In his homeland, Uss is accused of laundering money or other property on an especially large scale (paragraphs «a», «b» of part 4 of article 174 of the Criminal Code). In October 2022, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put him on the wanted list, and the court arrested him in absentia: upon arrival at home, he was supposed to be sent to a pre-trial detention center. The information that Uss is now in Russia, in a conversation with Interfax on April 4, was confirmed by the press service of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Previously, Uss was in Italy — he was detained in this country in October 2022 at the request of the United States. 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.
On March 21, a court in Milan approved the extradition of a Russian to the United States. After that, Uss escaped from house arrest in the city of Basiglio. The Italian authorities believe that the Russian special services helped him to escape.
A criminal case on money laundering against Uss was opened after he was detained in Italy. Probably, this was done in order to achieve his extradition to his homeland. This happened, for example, when in 2012 in Cyprus, at the request of the American authorities, the hacker Dmitry Zubakha was arrested. Immediately after that, a criminal case was also opened against him in Russia, and in the spring of 2013, the Cypriot court decided to extradite Zubakha to Moscow.
In the same scenario, they unsuccessfully tried to return the co-owner of the BTC-E crypto exchange Alexander Vinnik and the hacker Evgeny to their homeland Nikulin. 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 United States, despite Russia's attempts to return him to his homeland.