MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow court has upheld a decision to prolong the arrest of former nuclear power minister Yevgeny Adamov, now held in a Swiss prison, until October 8.
The court turned down the appeal filed by Adamov's lawyer, Timofei Gridnev, who had insisted the arrest was illegal.
On August 1, Moscow's Basmanny Court made the decision, at a meeting not attended by the defendant, to prolong his confinement until October 8.
"Extending confinement in the defendant's absence is illegal," Gridnev said, adding that it was only allowable if documents verifying that the defendent could not attend were presented to the court.
However, Gridnev said, prosecutors did not provide such documents from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice.
Basmanny Court issued an arrest warrant on May 14 for Adamov who had been arrested in Switzerland on U.S. charges of misappropriating $9 million allocated to Russia for nuclear safety projects.
