Russia is deeply disappointed with the decision adopted by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, on the extradition of the Russian businessman Vladislav Klychezy, arrested at the request of the United States. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov, broadcast is available on Youtube RT channel.
Diplomat indicated that Swiss law enforcement structures ignored the arguments of lawyers about the political component of the case, they took the doubts of the arguments of the American side and “unreasonably rejected the oncoming request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office about extradition.” According to her, Washington “continues to practice the initiation of arrests of Russians in third countries and seek their issuance.”
Zakharova stressed that the Russian Embassy continues to maintain contacts with Vladislav’s lawyers, to ensure his rights and provides him with the necessary consular support. “The defense will continue to use all the envisaged legal capabilities to prevent the issuance of a Russian citizen in the United States. On December 6, the lawyers were filed by a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court of Switzerland,” the representative of the Foreign Ministry commented on.
Klycheli was arrested in Canton Valis at the end of March 2021 and took into custody in anticipation of the decision on extradition. June 9 became aware that the United States expects Russian. He is accused of trade secret information. According to the United States, Kushino and its accomplices received tens of millions of dollars in exchange for insides.
In September, it became known that Kushino was suspected of involvement in the presidential election in the United States in 2016. The entrepreneur allegedly led the operation of the Russian special services to influence the electoral process, and also had a relation to the hacker attacks on the servers of the US Democratic Party, which then lost to Republicans. Materials in the case of Klyushin in the court of Massachusetts are classified.