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The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Uss, commented on the detention of his son in Italy and the fact that the United States had charged him with evading sanctions and money laundering.
In his Telegram channel, the Russian official wrote: “The supply of petroleum products, publicly available equipment and technical means that are freely sold and bought all over the world is suddenly declared illegal by the American authorities. Why? Only because it is being done for the benefit of Russia. The political color of these accusations is obvious,” the Uss wrote.
The US Department of Justice reported details of what Artem Uss, the son of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Uss, is accused of. Earlier it became known that five Russians were accused by the United States of evading sanctions and money laundering. At the same time, Artyom Uss was detained in Italy and is being extradited to the United States, and in Germany, the second accused, Yuri Orekhov, was sent into custody.
Artem Uss is the founder of the Sibugol company. According to the US Department of Justice, he, like other defendants, participated in schemes for the sale of oil from Venezuela. At the same time, front companies were involved, and calculations were made in cryptocurrency.
It also became known that Artem Uss and Yuri Orekhov were co-owners of the German company Nord-Deutsche Industrieanlagenbau GmbH. She was engaged in the trade of industrial equipment. But the US Department of Justice considers this company a fake. Another defendant, Svetlana Kuzurgasheva, was the head of one of the shell companies and worked under the leadership of Orekhov. Through this company, military and dual-use technologies were purchased from American manufacturers.