Brazilian justice officials said Thursday they can’t approve a U.S. request to extradite an alleged Russian spy, Sergey Cherkasov, because they have already been processing Moscow’s own request for him.
Brazil’s justice minister, Flávio Dino,
on Twitter that Cherkasov will remain imprisoned in Brazil for the time being. A Russian request for Cherkasov on allegations of drug trafficking had been conditionally approved by Brazil’s Supreme Court earlier this year, making Brazil. However, the Russian request is also pending Brazil’s own spying investigation into Cherkasov.Paulo Ferreira, one of Cherkasov’s lawyers, could not immediately be reached for comment Friday night.
The Justice Department’s March complaint alleges Cherkasov acted as a type of deep-cover Russian agent called an “illegal.” Such agents operate without any known link to their home government and often build elaborate false identities., a Brazilian citizen, but U.S. and Brazilian authorities say he was actually born in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
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