Russian citizen Sofia Sapega, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison in Belarus, has agreed to be extradited to the Russian Federation. It has been reported TASSHe refers to Alexei Maskalev, the press secretary of the Russian embassy in the republic.
Maskalev said that the previous day the embassy made a request to the competent Belarusian authorities to visit the large number of Russians currently detained on Belarusian territory.
“Including Sofia Sapega, who is serving her sentence in a reformatory in the Gomel region. As soon as the relevant permission was obtained from the Belarusian authorities, our consul visited Sofia Sapega on Monday, April 10,” he said.
According to Maskalev, at the time of the meeting, the Russian consul allowed the convicted Russian woman to be extradited to the Russian Federation to serve a possible further sentence in her own country.
“The next phase, including the technical details of the return procedure, is being handled by Russian and Belarusian law enforcement agencies,” the embassy said.
Former Russian woman’s lawyer Sofia Sapieha Anton Gashinsky knowledgeable About the beginning of the transfer procedure to Russia.