DMitri Ukrainian 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. The extradition of a Ukrainian to the United States was reported to human rights defenders by his wife
Thai authorities have extradited Russian citizen Dmitry Ukrainsky to the United States, who is accused of embezzling funds of American citizens with subsequent legalization in Thailand, TASS reports, citing Ivan Melnikov, deputy chairman of the Russian branch of the International Committee for the Protection of Human Rights.
The human rights activist told the agency that the Ukrainian’s wife had addressed him with a letter about the violation of her husband’s rights. “Her husband was extradited from Thailand on June 16, 2022, despite the presence of two contradictory court decisions of the Kingdom of Thailand on his extradition to the United States and simultaneously to Russia and additional legal proceedings, in an environment of extreme secrecy, which was more like a kidnapping,” Melnikov explained.
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 the Ukrainian and the charges against him and arrange a meeting with the consul.
RBC sent inquiries to the press services of the Thai police and the Russian Embassy in Thailand and asked 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 that year, the Russian side appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Thailand with a request to extradite the Ukrainian. The Foreign Ministry sent a note to the kingdom on 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. The American authorities have been investigating the activities of the Russian since 2014, when they discovered several suspicious transfers of funds to Thai accounts. Ukrainian denies his guilt.
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In 2019, a Russian held a hunger strike for more than a month, to get a retrial.
In Russia, he is also accused of fraud: according to the investigation, from April to May 2013, a Ukrainian in a group stole more than 7.5 million rubles. “by deception and abuse of trust”.
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