- Yevgeny Adamov
Evgeny Adamov (Yevgeny Adamov or Yevgeniy Adamov; _ru. Евге́ний Оле́гович Ада́мов) was the head of the
Russia natomic energy ministry,MinAtom . He was appointed by PresidentBoris Yeltsin in 1998 and ousted by PresidentVladimir Putin in 2001.Adamov, a nuclear physicist, then joined the
Dollezhal Institute .In 2005, he was arrested in
Bern ,Switzerland , onfraud charges. The arrest was made at the request of theUnited States . The US accused Adamov of diverting up to $9 million which the US Energy Department gave Russia to help improve security at its nuclear facilities.Extradition requests were filed first by the USA and then by Russia, which has actively protested the move by the US. Adamov was finally extradited to Russia. The move was widely covered as a successful ploy by the Russian government to prevent Adamov from telling US authorities state secrets (and perhaps some criminal secrets) that he knew.On February 20, 2008, he was convicted by the Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow, Russia of fraud and misuse of power and sentenced to 5.5 years or imprisonment. [ [http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=855218 Yevgeni Adamov Sentenced to 5.5 Years of Prison] ,
Kommersant , February 20, 2008.]He was released from jail when his sentence was suspended by a higher-level court on April 17, 2008. [ [http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?docsid=883807 Yevgeni Adamov's conviction is now suspended] ,
Kommersant , April 18, 2008.]References
[http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=106&sid=5761429 Russia demands extradition of arrested minister] , swissinfo, 19 May 2005.
External links
* [http://www.novayagazeta.ru/rassled2/minatom/karta.shtml Investigation by Novaya Gazeta (Russian)]
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