A 54 year old entrepreneur residing in Swiss and belonging toRussian aristocracy he was arrested on Monday morning by the Carabinieri of the investigative unit. His name is Dimitry Chirakadze and is suspected of having helped Artem Ussson of a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putinto escape from house arrest who was serving in Basiglio, near Milanto 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 but “the investigation activities have allowed – we read in a note from the Prosecutor’s Office – to identify the subject (Chirakadze, ed) being part of a superordinate level, from an organizational point of view, compared to the members of the group who materially favored the USS escape”. Translated: it seems that the aristocrat was one of the minds of the operation. In the next few hours she will be questioned by Italian magistrates.
Dimitry Chirakadze he is part of the Russian nobility as a descendant of a Grand Duke of Georgia. In 2008 he founded the group together with designer Aleksei Pelevin Pravo.rua Russian online media specialized in legal journalism which, in the space of a few years, managed to win the management of the maintenance of the electronic services of the arbitral tribunals.
The fifty-four-year-old is also “shared in numerous Russian companies together with members of the Uss family, also with top management positions” including in the capital of one Russian mining company of which Artem is a partner. The investigations also discovered that the nobleman’s wife owns shares in the company that manages the luxury tourist facility, in Sardiniaattributable to the Uss family and of an imposing hunting lodge in Krasnoyarskin Siberia, a favorite vacation spot of important Russian officials, including the governor Alexander Ussfather of Artem.
The Russian is accused of having monitored the outcome of the decision of the Court of Appeal of Milan on the possible USS extradition to the United Statesin fact unfavorable to the man, of having attended, in the organizational phase, the main meetings with the members of the gang who guaranteed escapeto have maintained constant contact with family members and met members of the gang on several occasions in foreign territory.
The clues of guilt emerged from the analysis of telephone traffic (multiple and from different telephone companies, including those from foreign countries), of boarding lists of air flights which made it possible to detect its presence in the various Italian and foreign cities where the attacks took place preparatory meetings for the escape.
The members of the group, the investigators explain, “used a car whose license plate was not cloned and which was made to ‘reappear’ in an area far from the border”, from which “the escaped prisoner left the country”. Furthermore, “fortified by the contacts they had in Slovenia, they crossed the Gorizia border on the same day of the escape, contacted a car rental agency and drove a car to Bosnia, another car to Serbia and a third cars in Slovenia”.
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.
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.
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.
