The Kremlin-controlled RIA Novosti agency quotes Usa as saying he is already in Russia. Usam was placed under house arrest pending extradition to the United States. Uss, who faces up to 30 years in prison in the United States, broke his electronic monitoring bracelet and escaped from an apartment near Milan.
The extradition of Usa to the United States was approved by the Milan Court of Appeal on March 21. Uss was detained in Italy on October 10.
It has already been reported that the US authorities exposed two schemes for the sale of high technology to Russia last fall.
In connection with one of these schemes, three Latvian citizens and a Ukrainian were also accused of trying to send to Russia a high-precision profile grinder made in the United States, which can be used in the production of weapons or in the nuclear weapons program.
In connection with a second scheme, the US has indicted five Russian nationals, including the US, who supplied US electronic components to Russian weapons manufacturers, some of which have been found on the battlefield in Ukraine.
They expected to buy technologies such as advanced semiconductors and microprocessors used in fighter jets, missile systems, smart munitions, radars and satellites from US manufacturers.
Yury Orekhov, a Russian national living in Dubai, Us and three other Russian nationals used a Hamburg-based company to supply the technology to Russian military companies subject to US sanctions. In 2019, Orekhov had traveled to the United States to deliver parts that were used in the Russian-built Sukhoi fighter jets.
“Some of the electronic components obtained through this criminal scheme have been found on Russian weapons platforms seized on the battlefield in Ukraine,” the Justice Department said.
In addition, Orekhov, his Russian partners and two Venezuelan oil traders, who have also been indicted, used this German company as a front to ship hundreds of millions of barrels of oil from Venezuela to Russia and China in violation of global sanctions.
The payments were routed through shell companies, banks in the United Arab Emirates, cash transfers and cryptocurrency trading.
The five Russian nationals and two Venezuelan oil traders were charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, sanctions violations, wire fraud and money laundering.
The US Treasury Department has also imposed sanctions on Orekhova, a German front company and a Dubai company he controls.
Russia has also requested his extradition, where a criminal case has been initiated against him for money laundering in an organized group on a particularly large scale.
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