Dmitry Ukrainsky in the United States is accused of embezzling $ 30 million. The Thai authorities, where he was detained in 2016, approved the extradition of the Russian to both Russia and the United States. His wife informed human rights activists about the extradition of the Ukrainian to the USA
The Thai authorities have extradited Russian citizen Dmitry Ukrainsky to the United States, who is accused of embezzling funds from American citizens with subsequent legalization in Thailand, TASS reports citing Ivan Melnikov, deputy chairman of the Russian branch of the International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights.
The human rights activist told the agency that Ukrainskiy's wife turned to him with a letter about the violation of her husband's rights. “Her husband was extradited from Thailand on June 16, 2022, despite two conflicting rulings from the Kingdom of Thailand to extradite him to the United States and simultaneously to Russia and an additional trial, in an atmosphere of extreme secrecy, which was more like a kidnapping.” ,— explained Melnikov.
He stressed that, according to the protocol to the consular convention between Russia and the United States of 1964, when a Russian was detained or arrested, the consular person should have been notified of this within three days, but this did not happen. Therefore, Melnikov asked US Attorney General Merrick Garland to provide Russian diplomats with information about the places of detention of Ukrainian in custody and the charges against him and arrange a meeting with the consul for him.
RBC sent inquiries to the press services of the Thai police and the Russian embassy in Thailand and turned to Ivan Melnikov for comment.
Ukrainian was arrested in Pattaya in 2016 at the request of the FBI. The authorities of the kingdom sentenced him to 10 years in prison. In the summer of the same year, the Russian side turned to the Prosecutor General's Office of Thailand with a request to extradite Ukrainian. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a note to the kingdom about the inadmissibility of the extradition of a Russian to the United States.
In 2017, the court approved his extradition to Russia, and in 2019, the Thai authorities allowed the extradition of the Russian to the United States. The court concluded that the hacker group to which the accused belonged stole more than $30 million from the cards of citizens of the United States, Australia, Japan, Italy, Great Britain and Germany. US authorities have been investigating the Russian since 2014, when they discovered several suspicious transfers of funds to Thai accounts. Ukrainian denies his guilt.
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In In Russia, he is also accused of fraud: according to the investigation, from April to May 2013, Ukrainian as part of a group stole more than 7.5 million rubles. «by deceit and breach of trust».
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