Milano, the man who helped Artem Uss escape from house arrest has been arrested
Arrested in Switzerland by the Carabinieri Milano a 54-year-old Russian citizen believed to be one of the promoters and organizers of the escape of USS Artem, the Russian tycoon who escaped from house arrest which took place on 22 March 2023 from Basiglio.
Milano, the man who helped Artem Uss escape from house arrest has been arrested
In the last few hours the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command di Milano they arrested a Russian citizen, resident in Switzerland, believed to be one of the initiators and organizers of the escape of USS Artem1 from Italy, occurred the March 22 2023, which gave rise to a complex investigation, initiated by the Carabinieri themselves and coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Milano.
The restrictive measure, a precautionary custody order in prison, It was issued by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Milano and fully accepted the request of the local Prosecutor's Office following a second, detailed and complex phase of investigation relating to the crime of attempted prison evasion, with the aggravating circumstance of the transnational crime. This order follows the one issued by the same investigating judge Milano on 22.11.2023 against Artem USS, the escaped subject, and delle 5 people who materially and physically allowed his escape .
Due of the aforementioned subjects have, in the meantime, been captured in their respective countries of origin and delivered to Italy; they are both detained at the Opera prison in execution of the aforementioned precautionary measure. A third subject, Italian of Bosnian origin, after a period of detention in the prison of Brescia, already since December 2023, he is under house arrest in the same Lombard province. In summary, the investigation activities allowed to identify the subject as part of a superordinate level, from an organizational point of view, compared to the members of the group who materially favored the USS escape. The recipient of the restrictive measure, 54-year-old Russian citizen, believed to have monitored the outcome of the Court of Appeal's decision Milano on possible extradition of USS to the United States of America, in fact unfavorable to the man, such as to induce him to implement the plan that he had organized in the meantime by preliminarily contacting the members of the gang who then carried out the escape; attended, in the organizational phase, at the main meetings with the members of the band who ensured escape; - maintained constant contact with Artem USS's family members in order to supervise the phases of organization and implementation of the filtration; met the members of the gang on several occasions once the exfiltration has taken place, in foreign territory.
Serious indications of guilt against the aforementioned have emerged from a widespread and in-depth analysis of the traffic produced by telephones (multiple and from different telephone companies, including from foreign countries) in use at the same time, that they actually have allowed to track its positions on Italian territory, perfectly compatible with the places of interest already identified by the investigators, in particular those where meetings and gatherings preparatory to the organizational phases took place (in particular luxury hotels and restaurants in the Province of Milano); analyzing numerous airline flight boarding lists that they allowed to find its presence in different cities, Italian and foreign, where the preparatory meetings for the escape took place; also through correspondence between the telephone numbers that emerged in Italy and those used for booking travel tickets; identifying and documenting the man's contacts with the entourage and family members of Artem USS; finding his actual residence in the canton of Geneva, as emerged during the investigative phase; certifying his presence, abroad, in the days and weeks following the exfiltration, where he met some of the subjects who completed the escape project.
Furthermore, thanks to a complex Open Source Intelligence activity, the investigators were able to outline the exact relevance of the recipient of the provision, which Russian entrepreneur co-founder of the Pravo.ru group, owner of the e-justice system of the same name that provides support to Russian court websites; this same structure also records a
important presence in the Russian online media system specializing in legal journalism partner in numerous Russian companies together with members of the USS family, even with top management positions.
The same subject is a member of the Russian aristocracy, as a descendant of a Grand Duke of Georgia, and is married to a wealthy Russian woman with whom he manages further numerous and complex axis companies and corporations of international importance, in some of which members of the USS family are involved.
In particular, the investigation activities revealed the direct involvement of the suspect's wife in the ownership di shares of the company that manages an important luxury tourist facility, in Sardinia, attributable to the same woman and to the USS family; of a Russian law firm known as a leading specialist in obtaining the necessary decisions in the Supreme Court and arbitration in Moscow; – of an impressive hunting estate in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in Siberia, a favorite vacation spot of prominent Russian officials, including Governor Alexander USS, Artern's father.
The Judge for preliminary investigations accepted in full also the legal qualification of the conduct contested by this Prosecutor's Office on the basis of the reconstructions of the Carabinieri, in particular recognizing how the escape was planned and carried out by a group of people gathered together that after having carried out several inspections, having procured the necessary cars and having activated the so-called "intercom" utilities, expressly dedicated to the commission of the crime , they took the USS from the house where he was detained (in Basiglio, in the Province of Milano) and accompanied him to the border with Slovenia.
The operational group and its contact person and organizer, the Russian citizen arrested, were deemed an organized criminal syndicate, engaged in criminal activity in more than one state, with the involvement of people of different nationalities (currently Albanian, Serbian, Bosnian and Slovenian subjects), which, through the use of cars registered in multiple states (Italy, Slovenia and Serbia) e of Serbian, Italian, Bosnian and Slovenian users, have adopted a precise and well-defined strategy, also aimed at misleading the investigations. The components of group used a car whose license plate was not donated and which was made to “reappear” in an area far from the land border from which the escapee had left; furthermore, thanks to the contacts they had made in Slovenia, they crossed the border of Gorizia on the same day of the escape, they contacted a car rental agency and they have drove a car to Bosnia, another car to Serbia and a third car to Slovenia.
In the next few hours the arrested Russian citizen will be subjected to interrogation by the Italian judicial authority.
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