Former Mayor of Vladivostok Vladimir Nikolayev was detained in Panama upon the request of Russian law-enforcement authorities. In 2007 Nikolayev was sentenced by a Russian court to a suspended prison term of 4.5 years for “abuse of official powers” (spending municipal funds for personal bodyguards). After that, Nikolayev fled abroad, and the suspended term was changed to an actual term. The extradition may be complicated by the fact that the 2009 Russian-Panamanian legal assistance treaty has not yet entered into force.
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