"At the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, the competent authorities of the Argentine Republic extradited to Russia a citizen of the Republic of Colombia, Edgar Alejandro Valero Valero," RIA Novosti quotes the words of the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office Andrei Ivanov.
According to the department, in Russia he is accused of theft on an especially large scale.
According to the investigation, in July 2018, in the exhibition pavilion of Kazan, an attacker and accomplices stole a travel suitcase with jewelry worth 160 million rubles from an employee of the Seven Diamonds jewelry company.
After that he disappeared from the scene of the crime.
The court in Kazan arrested the criminal in absentia, and he was put on the wanted list. In September 2019, the accused was detained in Argentina.