Artem Uss case, Nordio in the Chamber: “I asked that he remain in prison”. Appeal court ‘flooded with remarks on flight danger’

“This minister has fully complied with the dictates of the law by exercising his power of initiative with a note through which he communicated to the Milan court of appeal, to the Ministry of the Interior his will to request the maintenance of pre-trial detention in prison against Uss to secure the delivery of this one to US authorities.” The Minister of Justice said so Charles Nordio in the urgent briefing to the Chamber intervening on the case of the escape, from house arrest in Milan, of the Russian citizen Artem Uss.

It is a “heresy” to say that I had jurisdiction over the granting of house arrest to Uss, he added. “It has never happened that a minister has interfered in the decisions of the judiciary”.

However, the Milan Court of Appeal that granted the house arrest to Artem Uss had been “inundated with observations on the danger of fleeing,” Nordio said. The Americans proved to be “astonished” by the granting of house arrest to the Russian citizen Artem Uss, following the decision taken by the Court of Appeal of Milan, despite the many alarm notes sent by the US administration on the ‘caliber’ of Uss and the his international relations which connoted him at high risk of flight. The Minister of Justice said so.

“The Russian Federation has also presented a request for the extradition of Artem Russ: two extradition requests have overlapped and crossed, that of the United States and that of the Russian Federation”, Nordio highlighted.