Moscow
Russia is protesting Switzerland’s decision this week to extradite a former Russian atomic energy minister to the United States. Yevgeny Adamov, who was arrested in Switzerland five months ago, is accused of laundering $9 million of a U.S. aid package that was supposed to go toward securing nuclear materials against theft. Russian authorities had argued unsuccessfully that Adamov, minister from 1998 to 2001, should be extradited to his own country instead. Russian Duma deputy Viktor Ilyukhin said the U.S. trumped up the charges because it wanted “an ex-Russian minister at its disposal as a source of secret information of great interest for U.S. intelligence services.”
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