Artem Uss is the son of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Uss. Italian Prime Minister George Meloni said there were "anomalies" during the trial.

Uss voluntarily came to the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, where he changed the measure of restraint from arrest in absentia to a written undertaking not to leave the place. The man reported that he had escaped and was in Russia on April 4.