War jets deployed on the border with Austria, 007 from half the world unleashed far and wide, secret dossiers, Russian blitz in a foreign land. There is much more behind the sensational escape from Italy of Artem Uss, the scion of the Siberian oligarch, right-hand man of Putin, father and master of the Costa Dorada, in extreme Gallura. There is the diplomatic crisis between Italy and the United States, between the CIA and the Italian secret services, between Palazzo Chigi and the Ministry of Justice. There is a clash between the judiciary and the government. It could not be otherwise. Just read the charges of the US judicial district, in our possession and which we publish, just scroll through the wiretaps between Artem Uss and his partner in war and oil affairs, to understand that the affair is not a hiccup. .

It's not just a joke

The Americans don't say it: it is not negligence, the escape of Artem Uss from Italy, complete with an active surveillance bracelet, cannot be classified as a simple fool. According to the New York district of justice, the Russian-Siberian citizen, residing in San Teodoro, in the middle ground between the Costa Smeralda and the Barbagia mountains, trafficked oil, bypassed world sanctions, but above all traded sophisticated American war equipment, the one for jets, missiles and deadly paraphernalia. All stuff that Putin allegedly used in his "special operation" in the Ukraine. Therefore, the owner of Luxory Sardinia srl and of the Hotel San Diego, a five-star resort on the slopes of the Costa Dorada, in the Gallura municipality of Porto San Paolo, was not around the world selling beds. His activity is black and white in a 46-page international arrest warrant, a j'accuse from a hardened criminal, capable, according to the Americans, of moving millions upon millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies, with the aim of bypassing the sanctions, once with Venezuelan oil, the other with the trade of American-made microchips to defense contractors in Russia all reused in the war in Ukraine.

Arms smuggler

In those pages there is the American face of Artem Uss, his ties to the Russian apparatuses, his international turnover and even his concerns. On March 11, 2022, two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Artem Uss, son of the most powerful man in Siberia, president of that region, a man of honor in the circle of Tsar Vladimir Putin, writes a message on the phone by Yury Orekhov, business partner. The Americans intercept it. The scion is worried and informs his smuggling partner: "They (the United States and the European Union ed) are preparing four packages of sanctions. Apparently, now the governors will be included". The high fever of the "diplomatic" son is all linked to the figure of the father, the true oligarch, the one who according to the accusation of internal opponents, few and in bad shape, would be deforesting the largest forests in the world to earn billions of rubles, to be sent to his son, to keep them in place safe, abroad and in cryptocurrencies. He fears that the circle of sanctions will end up crashing on him, on his properties, on the current accounts scattered in Sardinian, Italian and Swiss banks. He is worried, but he tries to exorcise. It is the March 30, 2022, when the Americans intercept messages between two Russians, one is Yury Orekhov and the other is Artem Uss. The two are doing business with both hands in the United States and in Venezuela. They buy and resell military equipment, loaded ships of oil and a lot of information technology. They are in fact Russian agents across the border. They are out of the draft, but are already feeling the pressure of possible sanctions. The USS associate is direct in the question: "Have you decided to leave Russia?". The answer of the scion is a confession: "Do you want to become an international fugitive? It's too much". He, Artem Uss, had already made the film for some time. He knew he could have his back covered, even in a foreign land, especially Italy. Already a year earlier he imagined the risk of becoming an international wanted man, well aware , however, that it would have been "too much" for him to accept that status, let alone that of a prisoner. Putin, since the first day of his arrest last October at Malpensa airport, had organized himself to bring Artem Uss back to his homeland as soon as possible , without giving too much displeasure to the father of the bold young man, his "squire" in Siberia. The first act is what you don't expect: Putin's international arrest warrant against the young Artem Uss. The pattern is clear: Putin wants to oppose, before the Italian judges, a similar request for extradition, equal to that already formulated by the United States The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia goes further and inserts Artem Uss in its "very special" black list. The Moscow court charge is that of large-scale money laundering, the maximum penalty of up to 7 years in prison with a fine of one million rubles.