US authorities have charged Russian citizen Sergei Cherkasov with attempting to act in the United States “as an agent of a foreign power”, as well as banking and visa fraud. The announcement was made public by the US Department of Justice.
“Cherkasov began operating as an illegal agent in 2012 in Brazil under the name Ferreira, and in 2018 he moved to the United States after enrolling in graduate studies at a university located in the district of Columbia,” the agency said in a statement.
The US Department of Justice specifies that at present, the Russian “is imprisoned in Brazil for fraud”.
According to the department, Cherkasov left the United States in 2020, but after that he allegedly continued to use the connections he had developed in academia in order to obtain information on Washington’s foreign policy.
A few days ago, an Italian court ordered the extradition to the United States of another Russian, the son of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Uss Artyom, who is accused of evading sanctions and money laundering. money. Artyom Uss has been under house arrest in a rented apartment in Milan for a few days, but last Thursday he managed to break his locator bracelet and escape.
US Justice Department charged Russian citizen Sergei Cherkasov with espionage and fraud
