Posted on 09/02/2013 10:40:17 PM PDT by TexGrill
With Russian citizens being arrested abroad and being subsequently extradited to the United States become more frequent, the Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a warning advising travelers to carefully choose their destinations.
“The incidents in which Russian citizens are detained in various countries of the world upon request of US law enforcers who seek to extradite and prosecute them in the United States has increased. The last such cases were the arrests of Dmitry Ustinov in Lithuania, Dmitry Belorossov in Spain Maksim Chukhrayev in Costa Rica and Aleksander Panin in the Dominican Republic,” reads the press statement on the Foreign Ministry’s web-site.
The ministry recommended all Russian citizens who have “well-founded suspicions that US law enforcement have any sort of claims against them” to refrain from visiting countries that had signed mutual handover agreements with the United States.
Russian diplomats went on to explain that the US court process involving Russian citizens who were “practically abducted” demonstrates an inclination towards conviction, even though they are based on 'dubious' evidence.
“As a rule, they end in unlawful sentences of lengthy prison terms, like in cases of Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko who got 25 and 20 years in prison respectively.
It should be noted that both Bout and Yaroshenko were convicted as a result of sting operations and the main argument of the prosecution was the testimony of undercover agents, not some material evidence. Both men pleaded innocent in court and continue to do so to this day.
The ministry also emphasized in the statement that diplomats and consular staff were working to deliver legal aid to Russian citizens who end up in such situations, but under current conditions the hopes for success for this type of cases were slim.
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
The case against Bout was solid and included his own recorded communications. Not just “he said she said.” It’s telling that the Russian propaganda network RT is still trying to exonerate him. It furthers the likelihood that Bout was really working for the GRU all along. It wouldn’t be the first terrorist managed from Moscow.
We haven’t got enough prisons for all the Russians/KGB assassins and drug pushers on our wanted lists, or those of other countries (Poland for the Katyn Forest Massacre of 20,000+ Polish Reserve Army officers, the refusal to aid the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and the deaths of Poles in Soviet gulags and execution camps.
The same for the Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonias, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, esp. after the 1956 Revolution, the Russian involvement in the Greek Civil War, murders of Chetniks in Yugoslavia, vast gulags from Potma to Lake Baikal, Archangel, Murmansk, Vortuka, and Magadan, among others.
Georgi Markov’s murder. And others who died by poison pellets or poisoned drinks (Pallanium), etc. KAL 007 shoot-down, including the murder of U.S. Representative Larry McDonald (D-Ga), and many more.
Perhaps if we stopped buying Russian vodka, their whole economy would collapse. Just thinking.
Meanwhile, Obozo is going to have a gay old time in Mother Russia (the same Mother Russia his Kenyan marxist father served during his pathetic life).
Perhaps this is a “return to the Mother land”, a sort of nostalgic mind-trip from stories in his youth (Frank Marshall Davis, Barack Obama Sr (not really around long enough to say more), Henry and David Canter (lived and worked in Russia for Stalin), etc.
The possibilities of what is going on in Obama’s mind is endless and none of it good for America.
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