Manhattan Federal Courthouse. File photo WASHINGTON, June 24 Russian Dmitry Ukrainsky faces up to twenty years in prison in the United States on charges of fraud, John Marzouli, a spokesman for the office of the Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, told RIA Novosti. He also noted that the following no court date yet.
The Fiji court allowed the United States to take away «Kerimov's yacht» under the pretext of sanctionsUkrainian extradited from Thailand to the United States for the first time appeared before an instance in New York on June 21. for extradition to Russia. Such a verdict was the first «double» decision on extradition in the history of Thai jurisprudence. Declassified documents showed that Ukrainian was charged with fraud of more than 300 thousand dollars. The files themselves date from April 25, 2016, but they were made public on June 18, 2022. Ukrainskiy and his accomplices are charged under five counts, including conspiracy, cyber fraud and money laundering. was arrested in Pattaya in July 2016 following an American preliminary request for extradition. Mikhail and Olga Komovy are being investigated along with Ukrainskiy in the fraud case. Ukrainskiy was also prosecuted on charges of money laundering and under Thai law, later a court in Thailand sentenced him to ten years in prison. According to the principle of priority of local laws over extradition laws, he first had to serve time in Thailand. The Russian was subject to several amnesties, as a result of which his prison term officially ended in November 2021. However, Ivan Melnikov, vice-president of the Russian branch of the International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, told RIA Novosti that on June 16, the Thai authorities extradited Ukrainian to the United States. Poklonskaya responded to Ukraine's threats to extradite her from Cape Verde
