The U.S. has asked Brazil to extradite an alleged Russian spy charged last month by the Justice Department with posing as a foreign student in Washington while carrying out espionage operations against the West, according to U.S. and Brazilian officials.
The United States has asked Brazil to extradite an alleged Russian spy charged last month by the Justice Department with posing as a foreign student in Washington while carrying out espionage operations against the West, according to U.S. and Brazilian officials.The extradition request filed Tuesday represents an extraordinary attempt by the United States to take custody of a Russian operative held overseas while Moscow is pursuing its own effort to secure his release.
Officials in Brazil said the U.S. request would be relayed to the country’s Supreme Court, which ordinarily handles extradition matters, but President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may be forced to intervene because of the sensitivity of the case.A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment, saying, “As a matter of policy, the department generally does not comment on extradition-related matters.
His arrest is part of a crackdown on Russian espionage networks in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. European countries expelled at least 400 Russian diplomats after the start of the war on suspicion of espionage, a purge that has continued with expulsions in recent weeks in Sweden and Germany.
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