The pending war of sanctions with collateral damage and unjustified victims cannot be overestimated. On the daily basis, we hear new financial sanctions imposed on legal entities and individuals and what is alarming increasing number of related criminal allegations resulting in arrest warrants, detentions, extraditions and real term convictions.
The latter was beyond reason just few years ago. The literal concept of nowadays sanctions, which are absolutely irrespective of UN Security Council legal instruments, is to weaponize the political and economic rivalry of certain governments with pretext of changing unwanted behavior, protecting minorities, address national threats, etc.
The targeted persons are now selected on random basis and obviously are politically persecuted and intimidated just because they are citizens of certain adversary states legitimately and professionally acting as businesspeople, entrepreneurs, policy makers, government officials, journalists, leaders of opinions, etc. With that, many of such cases remained unnoticed with interest of defendants duly unprotected.
The millennials and any active business people got used to global travel and consider themselves cosmopolitan should be aware of the peril. With global and regional tensions rapidly rising, the personal risk is something that should be taken very seriously…
The task force KleptoCapture formed by DOJ officially declared the hunt for Russian elite family members
Dear friends, colleges and legal professionals!
Few western media outlets including "Important stories" in Latvia aimed Uss as a legitimate target referring to his family ties to Russian Governor Alexander Uss and business interests in western countries
Secret US Federal indictment issued with arrest warrant of Uss in Eastern District of New York Court
Uss arrested at Malpensa airport in Italy on the basis of conspiracy charges on sanction evasion against PDVSA, bank fraud and money laundering based on alleged US dollar payments for sanctioned PDVSA oil products
White House Press Secretary Karin Jan-Pierre referred to Uss situation during interview signaling prisoner swap motives
Italian authorities received the official request from US for Uss extradition
Milano Court decided positevly on application of Uss lawyers for his house arrest with electronic bracelet
US authorities condemened house arrest of Uss refering to flight risk and asking Italian government to interfere
Uss de facto released from the custody and transferred from prison to the premises for house arrest
OFAC included Uss in sanction list for his family connection to Russian Governor Alexander Uss as his elder son
Milano Court of Appeal held hearing for Uss extraditon
Guardia Finanza conducted search at Uss premises seizing electronic devices including the phone Uss was contacting his lawyers and credit cards. The search was authorized by special prosecutor on the request of US authorities outside the scope of extradition proceedings
Milano Court of Appeal approved US extradition of Uss on US bank fraud and PDVSA sanction evasion counts inclusivly ignoring the legal position of Italian prosecutor who never supported sanction evasion allegations against Uss
Uss was exfiltrated from the place of his house arrest
Uss lawyers filed the cassation appeal аgainst his extradition to the High Court of Rome