"The Prosecutor General's office has completed an investigation into the case of Yevgeny Adamov and other persons involved," they said.
The Prosecutor General's Office officially charged Adamov, 67, with embezzlement and abuse of office December 31, 2005, after a long battle to secure his extradition from Switzerland, where he had been arrested at the request of the United States in May. He has been held in custody since his return to Russia.
Vyacheslav Pismenny, a former director of the Troitsk Institute of Innovation and Fusion Research is also facing charges of fraud and being a member of a criminal gang. The same charges were laid against Revmir Fraishtut, general director of nuclear materials exporter Tekhsnabexport, and Alexander Chernov, president of Russian-U.S. company Globe Nuclear Service and Supply Limited, who is currently on the international wanted list.
"These people inflicted damage worth over 3 billion rubles [almost $110 million] on the Russian budget, enterprises and organizations," the Prosecutor General's Office said.
The defense has started studying the case materials.
The U.S. accused Adamov, who served as nuclear power minister in 1998-2001, of misappropriating $9 million given to Russia for nuclear safety projects. He would have faced 60 years in prison if convicted in the U.S.
On October 3, the Swiss Federal Justice Department announced it would extradite the former Russian minister to the U.S., but Adamov's defense team filed an appeal with the Federal Tribunal, Switzerland's Supreme Court, in Lausanne in November. On December 22, the Lausanne court upheld the appeal and ruled that Adamov be extradited to Russia because the country submitted its extradition request first.
