A Russian citizen residing in Swiss he was arrested on Monday morning by the Carabinieri of the investigative unit. The man is suspected of having helped Artem Ussson of a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, a escape from house arrest who was serving in Basiglio, near Milan, to then expatriate along the Balkan route and return by plane to Russia. The facts date back to March 2023 and some aspects of the story are still to be clarified.
The other arrests
This arrest, coordinated by the public prosecutor Giovani Tarzia, is part of the second tranche of theinvestigation into the USS escape which, in recent months, had led to the arrest of 6 people. Last January 20, he was captured in Slovenia Matej Janezic, accused of being one of the five members of the commando that freed Uss. On December 5, the fifty-two-year-old Bosnian had already ended up in handcuffs Vladimir Jovancic alias “Vlado the Elder”, stranded in Croatia, and his twenty-six-year-old son Boris, intercepted and stopped in Desenzano. Now the Serbs are missing Srdan Lolic And Nebojsa Ilic.
The raid and the escape
According to the reconstructions made by the investigators, the blitz in which Uss was made to escape had been preceded by five inspections, carried out between mid-February and ten days before the action, which took place on March 22: Jovancic was leading the operations. The commando freed Uss from electronic anklet who was supposed to track his location and they took him away in a car.
Because Uss was under house arrest
Artem Uss was arrested at the airport of Milan Malpensa in October 2022 because an arrest warrant issued by the United States Department of Justice for the crimes of criminal association for fraud against the state, criminal association for violation of the International Economic Power Act, criminal association for the commission of bank fraud and money laundering, punishable with sentences of up to 30 years of imprisonment.
