“The provisions of the Vienna Convention and the Convention on Consular Relations between France and Russia of 1966 are fully respected,” TASS quoted him as saying.
According to him, Vinnik was extradited to France on the basis of a European arrest warrant for a Russian.
“The extradition authorities dealt with the justice system,” the diplomat emphasized.
He recalled that from January 27, consular workers were provided access, and the Russian consul was able to meet with Vinnik.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Tatyana Moskalkova, sent the Minister of Justice of France a request for an opportunity to visit Vinnik.
January 24, it became known about the extradition of Vinnik from Greece to France.
On January 29, a court in Paris left a Russian in custody.
The Russian was arrested in Greece in 2017 at the request of the United States, where he is accused of creating, without a license from the American authorities, a cryptocurrency exchange through which, according to the United States, billions of dollars are laundered.