Twist in Kremlin Nepo Baby’s Wild Escape From U.S. Extradition

A Russian governor’s son who busted out of house arrest in Italy last week had help from a whole team of accomplices that probably involved Russia’s security services, Italian investigators say.

The “surgical” nature of the escape operation and the fact that it was “organized down to the smallest detail” suggest it was carried out by professional spooks, according to Corriere della Sera.

Artyom Uss, the son of Krasnoyarsk region Governor Alexander Uss, broke off his ankle monitor and fled house arrest in Milan last week after a court ruled in favor of extraditing him to the U.S., where he faces federal charges and up to 30 years in prison. Uss is accused of using a company he owns with one of his alleged accomplices to buy up U.S. military technologies that ultimately wound up in the hands of the Russian military in Ukraine.

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