A Russian businessman, in the making extradited to the United States, fled from house arrest in Italy. Is about Artem Uss, son of the governor of the Siberian Krasnoyarsk region.

Uss was with an electronic bracelet that informed the Italian authorities of his location at all times. But he disappeared this Friday from the house where he was held after the Italian justice approve his extradition.

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The businessman was arrested at Milan airport last October for the illegal sale of US technology to Russian arms companies.

Uss, along with four other Russians and two Venezuelan intermediaries, were accused of purchasing electronic components from the United States intended for equips Russian aircraft, radars and missilesthus avoiding the current sanctions.

In addition, he is accused of being part of a network that trading hundreds of barrels of Venezuelan oil on its way to Russia and China, under the facade of another company.

“As a father, I am very concerned about my son. I don’t know where he is and I don’t know what happened to him. I can only say that the apartment where he lived was always under surveillance by the carabinieri,” said Alexandre Uss this Friday, who fears that his son is the victim of a “geopolitical game”.

“It is not excluded that he received help from the Russian secret service in his escape,” said the newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. According to the newspaper La Repubblica, Ouss is already abroad.