He escaped from house arrest in Milan after breaking his electronic bracelet.

Artem Uss, the Russian businessman and son of the governor of a Siberian region, was arrested on October 17 at Malpensa, on an international arrest warrant from the New York judicial authority. Two days ago, the Court of Appeal of Milan decided that the man must be extradited to the United States.

From what has been learned, Artem Uss, waiting to challenge the judges' decision, disappeared from the house in Milan where he was under house arrest yesterday afternoon. The carabinieri are looking for him.

The 40-year-old entrepreneur, who was first put in prison and then after a few days under house arrest in his home in Basiglio (Milan), ended up at the center of a delicate case that affects relations between states, in particular the US and Russia, in a complex international scenario, given the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The USS defense had pointed out at a hearing that the arrest of the man would be aimed, so the lawyers had said, at a "prisoner exchange", because the United States would have been interested in obtaining the release of Paul Whelan, a businessman sentenced in Moscow to 16 years in 2020. And on October 21, Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that "Russian diplomatic missions will do their best to protect the interests of the USS."

Only for two out of four charges, contested by the American authorities, the Court of Appeal had given the green light to extradition to the United States. For the most delicate charge, precisely given the international scenario, which concerned the "illegal export" of "military and sensitive technologies", the so-called "dual use", for millions of dollars "from the United States to Russia", the judges found no evidence of his "causal contribution".