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Evgeny Adamov Doesn’t Want Return Home // constrained Extradition Former Russian Atomic Energy minister Evgeny Adamov, charged with large-scale fraud and now held in custody in Switzerland, rejected simplified extradition both to the USA and Russia, Kommersant reported earlier. Lenny A. Breuer, Mr. Adamov's American lawyer, explained to Kommersant correspondent Igor Sedykh why his client wouldn’t return home. - Dr. Adamov is very upset by the fact that he is still kept in prison. Once he is released, he is going to exercise his right of the defense and challenge baseless charges put forward against him in the US. - Then why did not he accept simplified extradition to Russia? - The arrest was illegal by all criteria, according to both the Swiss and the international law. If Mr. Adamov had agreed to the simplified procedure it would mean that we admit the arrest. But since we do not agree with it, we proceed from the necessity to contest this decision and turn down any simplified procedures because the arrest itself is illegal. We believe that Dr. Adamov must decide for himself where to go. That is why we decide in this way. - What are your grounds for this? - We have strong evidence that the arrest was illegal, which is also proved by our Swiss colleague [lawyer Stefan Wehrenberg]. First and foremost, Dr. Adamov arrived in Switzerland as a witness out of his own accord to testify on a different case but was arrested on the grounds of the US request and an arrest warrant, without even being notified beforehand that there was an American request on the legal cooperation. I am convinced that if a man arrives at a place of his own free will, he must leave it on his own free will too. We hope that the Swiss court will restore justice. - And if it does not? - Our further steps depend on this decision. If the court hands down a ruling to release Dr. Adamov, we will start preparing for the departure to Russia. If the court upholds extradition, we will be very much disappointed by it. Then we will be waiting for the decision to which country he will be extradited to and will be preparing to defend him there. - Why do you think Adamov may want to return to Russia where a criminal case has been initiated against him? - We have saying from the very beginning that he wants to go to Russia and contest all the charges put forward against him as a free man. The extradition request certainly changes the situation. - Aren’t you really afraid that your client will be cuffed and sent to a pre-detention centre right at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport? - I hope he will not be arrested. After all, no one attempted to put him into prison in Moscow when he was there in April. So why would they send him there now? I hope the Russian government will permit him to stay free so that he could contest all the charges as a free man. I guess our Russian colleagues will render him substantial assistance for him to be completely acquitted in Russia. I do not understand why he should got sent into prison in Russia if he has always loved his mother land and has never sought shelter abroad, though he had a plenty of opportunities to do it. - Mark Kaushansky, the second accused in this case, was released by an American court on bail. Can Evgeny Adamov count on a similar ruling, should he be extradited to the US? - I do not know if it may happen. We are holding talks with the authorities on various aspects of this case. I can assure you that my colleagues and I will do our utmost to achieve accords with the US authorities. But now our primary goal is to achieve the release of Dr. Adamov in Switzerland. by Igor Sedykh Russian Article as of May 30, 2005 ------------------------ Yahoo! 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