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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Feds brought a suspect to the US to face criminal charges. Now they are trying to deport her

A years-long FBI investigation into a Belarusian woman accused of smuggling American aviation equipment and electronics into Russia is at risk of collapsing thanks to the Trump administration’s simultaneous attempts to deport her.

Federal prosecutors spent more than a year trying to extradite Yana Leonova to the United States to face a raft of criminal charges, including fraud, money laundering and conspiracy.

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