{"id":1985238,"date":"2023-07-28T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazil-denies-us-extradition-request-for-alleged-russian-spy\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:32:58","slug":"brazil-denies-us-extradition-request-for-alleged-russian-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazil-denies-us-extradition-request-for-alleged-russian-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil refuses US extradition request for alleged Russian spy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrazil-denies-us-extradition-request-for-alleged-russian-spy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1985238&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Brazil Denies Extradition \u2063Request for Alleged Russian \u200dSpy<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200b Brazilian \u2062Ministry of Justice and Public\u200b Security announced on \u200bThursday \u200bthat Brazil has denied the United States&#8217;s request to extradite alleged\u2062 Russian \u2063spy \u2062Sergey Cherkasov.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c ministry revealed that it had received two extradition requests \u200cfor Cherkasov, one from the\u200c U.S. and one from Russia. However, Brazil plans to honor the request it received first, which\u2063 is \u2063from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Flavio Dino, Brazil&#8217;s justice minister, stated that\u200d Cherkasov will remain \u2062in Brazil for now. According to Cherkasov&#8217;s lawyer,\u2063 Paulo \u2063Ferreira, his client&#8217;s extradition to \u200cRussia will only take place after the final judgment of all his cases in Brazil.<\/p>\n<h3>Charges Against Cherkasov<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. Department of\u2064 Justice charged Cherkasov in March \u2062with \u200dseveral offenses, \u200bincluding\u2063 acting as an agent of a foreign power, \u2063visa fraud, bank fraud, and\u200c wire fraud. \u200dThe charges allege that Cherkasov used a\u2063 Brazilian alias, Victor Muller Ferreira, to apply for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazil-denies-us-extradition-request-for-alleged-russian-spy\/\" title=\"Brazil refuses US extradition request for alleged Russian spy.\">graduate school program<\/a> in Washington, D.C., and obtain a visa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/update-antifa-activist-daniel-alan-baker-arrested-for-plotting-to-murder-trump-supporters-says-he-received-soros-money\/\" title=\"UPDATE: Antifa Activist Daniel Alan Baker Arrested for Plotting to Murder Trump Supporters \u2014 Says He Received Soros Money\">criminal complaint filed<\/a> by U.S. prosecutors, Cherkasov began working as a\u2064 Russian spy \u2063in 2012 under his\u200b Brazilian cover\u2064 identity. Even while attending Johns Hopkins&#8217; School of Advanced International Studies in Washington,\u200b D.C., he continued to report to his\u200d handlers in Russia&#8217;s\u200b military intelligence \u2062service.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his activities \u200bas a spy, \u2063Cherkasov also attempted to secure a job with the International Criminal Court using his alias. However,\u200b his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-the-true-identity-of-jesus-was-he-looked-more-like-a-muslim-or-someone-who-was-dark\/\" title=\"Don Lemon: The \u2018True Identity Of Jesus\u2019 Was He \u2018Looked More Like A Muslim Or Someone Who Was Dark\u2019\">true identity<\/a> was eventually discovered. After being turned away, he returned to Brazil and was subsequently arrested on fraud\u200d charges \u200brelated to his\u2063 use of the false Ferreira identity.<\/p>\n<h3>Escalating Tensions<\/h3>\n<p>The release of \u2062charges against\u2063 Cherkasov by the\u2064 U.S. Department of Justice was followed\u2062 by the arrest \u200cof Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich \u200bin Russia on espionage charges. The Biden administration quickly declared Gershkovich&#8217;s \u200ddetention as\u2063 wrongful, as determined \u200dby \u2062the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Gershkovich&#8217;s arrest marked \u200bthe first detention \u2064of an \u2062American reporter in Russia on \u200cspying allegations \u200bsince the Cold \u200bWar. \u200bThis incident further strained the already strained relationship between Moscow and\u200b Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read\u200d more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil has rejected the US&#8217;s extradition request for alleged Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Justice. 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