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MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s Treasury mentioned it has frozen the assets held in the nation by Russian businessman Artem Uss, who dodged Italian authorities seeking to extradite him to the United States and fled to Russia closing month.
Americawas under home arrest at his home in Basiglio on the outskirts of Milan, nonetheless he fled a day after a Milan court docket agreed to transfer him to the U.S. to face costs of transport oil from Venezuela in breach of sanctions, and of bank fraud.
His digital monitoring imprint sent out an alarm when he left the home nonetheless he had disappeared by the time police arrived at the villa.
In an announcement released leisurely on Friday, the Treasury mentioned it had licensed a decree freezing assets belonging to Americain Italy, including a minority stake in a non-public firm, his villa in Basiglio and a checking fable containing bigger than 160,000 euros.
Americatold Russia’s RIA recordsdata agency earlier this month that the U.S. costs against him were politically motivated.
His destroy out has embarrassed the authorities and Top Minister Giorgia Meloni has also criticised the preliminary decision to grant Americahome arrest.
Italy’s justice minister has begun disciplinary motion against three judges who granted the home arrest, two sources with whine data of the topic mentioned earlier this week.