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Italian authorities are looking for a Russian governor’s son who reportedly reduce off his ankle monitor and fled home arrest after a court docket dominated in favor of extraditing him to the U.S., the place he faces federal costs and as much as 30 years in jail.
Artyom Uss, the son of Krasnoyarsk area Governor Alexander Uss, was on home arrest at an condo in Milan when he made the daring getaway Wednesday, the ANSA information company reviews.
Uss, 40, was nabbed at a Milan airport in October on the request of federal prosecutors within the U.S. who say he violated sanctions and laundered tens of millions of dollars. Uss is accused of utilizing an organization he owns with one in every of his alleged accomplices to purchase up U.S. navy applied sciences that in the end wound up within the fingers of the Russian navy in Ukraine.
He's additionally accused of utilizing the corporate to smuggle a whole bunch of tons of oil from Venezuela to China and Russia.
Russia’s International Ministry has demanded Uss be returned house, claiming the costs in opposition to him are a part of a political witch hunt.
“The political bias is apparent right here. It appears like a type of hostage-taking masked in a authorized type,” a consultant for the ministry informed Interfax.
In what certain appears like a doubtful try and defend Uss from extradition to the U.S., a court docket in Moscow issued an arrest warrant for him shortly after information broke that he’d been taken into custody in Italy. The Russian warrant additionally accuses him of cash laundering.