A Russian national escaped on Wednesday from house arrest in Milan after a local court had approved his extradition to the US earlier this week.
(Bloomberg) — A Russian national escaped on Wednesday from house arrest in Milan after a local court had approved his extradition to the US earlier this week.
“We can confirm Artem Uss is escaped and we are shocked about that,” one of Uss’s Italy-based lawyers told Bloomberg by phone. The Russian businessman’s legal team still plans to appeal the Milan court ruling that approved the extradition, the same lawyer said.
Artem Uss was accused by American prosecutors of being involved in a global network that used American technology to support President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Vladimir Osechkin, a human rights activist and founder of Gulagu.net, says he received information from whistleblowers in Russia’s intelligence services that Uss escaped with the help of Russian agents.
Uss was arrested last year in Milan on charges that he and his associates had defrauded the US and violated sanctions by selling sensitive technologies as well as sanctioned Venezuelan oil. Uss is the son of a Siberian governor.
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