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The US government intends to to accuse Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin, detained in Switzerland, of interfering in the US presidential election in 2016. He was won by Republican Donald Trump.
According to the British newspaper The Times, Klyushin may have led the alleged actions of Russian special services to interfere in the electoral process. He is also reportedly involved in hacking attacks on US Democratic Party servers.
In August, it was announced that the Swiss authorities had decided to extradite a Russian businessman to the USA. At the same time, they refused to extradite him to Russia, despite the fact that the Russian Federation applied for extradition earlier than the American side.
Klyushin was arrested in Switzerland in March 2021 at the request of the United States. In the United States, he is accused of financial fraud worth tens of millions of dollars. Rus is one of the founders of M13, a company specializing in media monitoring technology. The development of the company is mainly used by the Russian government and the presidential administration to monitor the media and social networks.