Russian citizen sought by U.S. leaves Armenia for Moscow

PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian man wanted by the United States for alleged money laundering and illegal arms sales has left Armenia after being briefly detained in Yerevan, RFE’RL reports.

A lawyer for Sergey Mironov said on Wednesday, August 31 that Mironov had departed from Yerevan on a flight to Moscow.

Mironov was detained on August 26 at Yerevan’s Zvartnots International Airport at the request of the U.S. government.

But a court in Yerevan on August 29 dismissed a motion by Armenian prosecutors for Mironov to remain in custody to face proceedings for possible extradition to the United States.

An international arrest warrant issued by U.S. authorities in May 2016 charged Mironov with money laundering and illegally transfer of military technology from the United States to an undisclosed foreign country.

Mironov is an employee at the Moscow office of Synesis, a company developing high-tech video surveillance and computer-based business intelligence.