Russian Foreign Ministry plenipotentiary Lukyantsev: The United States is making illustrative cases of Bout and Yaroshenko cases 
law, Deputy Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights Grigory Lukyantsev said that the United States refuses to release the imprisoned Russians Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko. The American authorities are trying to present their cases as illustrative cases, RIA Novosti reports.
The diplomat stressed that any requests from Moscow regarding these people are rejected, including the transfer to their homeland.
“They They constantly say that both Bout and Yaroshenko must serve their sentences in full. Apparently, for the edification of others, ”concluded Lukyantsev.
In August, the Foreign Ministry official said that the United States has been hunting Russian citizens in third countries since 2008 in order to extradite them to its territory in the future. The number of such cases has reached 50 and will continue to increase. Among the most egregious cases, the diplomat named the cases of Yaroshenko, But, Roman Seleznev and Maria Butina, who has already returned to Russia.
Konstantin Yaroshenko was convicted in 2011 for conspiring to smuggle drugs. He was brought to the United States from Liberia, where he was arrested on May 28, 2010. The Russian was allegedly caught transporting a large consignment of cocaine and sentenced to 20 years. On May 31, it became known that the relatives of the Russian pilot sent a petition for his pardon to US President Joe Biden.
Victor Bout is in the federal prison of Marion in Illinois. He was arrested in Thailand in 2008 at the request of Washington, after which a US court in April 2012 sentenced him to 25 years in prison for conspiracy to sell weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In the United States, this organization is considered terrorist. The Russian pleaded not guilty.