Washington — Brazil has denied the United States’ request to extradite alleged Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security said Thursday.
The Justice Department charged Cherkasov in March with acting as an illegal agent of a Russian intelligence service while he attended graduate school for two years in Washington. Still photos from a 2017 video showing Sergey Cherkasov in the Moscow Airport. The Ministry of Justice said the U.S. request was considered unfounded since Brazil’s Supreme Court had already approved Russia’s extradition request in April. But plans to move forward with his extradition to Russia […]
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