Yevgeny Olegovich Adamov (russian: Евге́ний Оле́гович Ада́мов, born April 28, 1939) was the head of the

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ministry,

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. He was appointed by President

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

in 1998 and ousted by President

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in 2001. Adamov, a nuclear physicist, then joined the Dollezhal Institute. From 1986 until 1998, Adamov directed NIKIET, a Russian government nuclear research and design institute. In 2005, he was arrested in Bern, Switzerland, on fraud charges. the arrest was made at the request of the

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. The US accused Adamov of diverting up to US$9 million which the US Energy Department gave Russia to help improve security at its nuclear facilities.

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requests were filed first by the US and then by Russia, which has protested about the move by the US. Adamov was finally extradited to Russia. The move was widely covered as a successful ploy by the Russian government to prevent Adamov from telling US authorities state secrets that he knew. In 2008, Adamov was convicted in Russia of abuse of office and defrauding the Russian government of some $31 million in United States aid funds intended for security upgrades for aging nuclear reactors. On February 20, 2008, he was convicted by the Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow, Russia of fraud and misuse of power and sentenced to 5.5 years of imprisonment. He was released from jail when his sentence was suspended by a higher-level court on April 17, 2008.Yevgeni Adamov's conviction is now suspended

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, April 18, 2008.

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Investigation by Novaya Gazeta (Russian)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Adamov, Yevgeny Living people Moscow Aviation Institute alumni Russian physicists Russian nuclear physicists 1939 births Russian fraudsters People extradited from Switzerland People extradited to Russia