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Scandal brewing over "kidnapped" Russian drug pilot 20 July, 2010, 10:40 The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry has sent an official note of protest to the US State Department after American agents detained a Russian citizen in Liberia and secretly transported him to the United States. The detainee is Konstantin Yaroshenko, who is suspected in the US of attempting to bribe Liberian officials and smuggle cocaine. The US violated the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations when it failed to inform Russia about the detention of its citizen, said on Monday Russia's General Consul in New York Andrey Yushmanov. He said the Foreign Ministry learned about Yaroshenko's fate from his family. <http://rt.com/Politics/2010-07-20/scandal-kidnapped-drug-pilot.html/print?f ullstory> Read more "We also notified that the conditions in which our citizen was held were beyond all ethical norms and were unacceptable," cites the diplomat Interfax news agency. Earlier Yaroshenko's legal councilor accused US officials of illegal actions against his client. According to the detainee, he was detained in Liberia's capital on May 28 by plainclothes agents, who never identified themselves. They took all his personal possessions and kept him in handcuffs for several days in a row without any charges. While in a Liberian prison, he was not properly fed and was not allowed to get in touch with his family. At the moment, the 42-year-old is being held in a US prison. Yaroshenko worked as a charter pilot for hire in several African countries. Some media reports said he was involved in drug trafficking between Latin America, Africa and Europe. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
