This was told by his lawyer Leonid Solovyov.
“The investigation sent a petition to the Basmanny Court of Moscow to arrest Verzilov in absentia, since, according to law enforcement officers, he violated his travel ban and fled to the territory of the Vatican,” Solovyov is quoted by TASS.
The court session is scheduled for January 9, 2023.
At the end of November 2021, Roskomnadzor drew up a protocol against Verzilov for not marking a foreign agent.
* "Project Media" (Project Media, Inc.) is an organization whose activities are recognized as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office dated July 15, 2021.
** Pyotr Verzilov was included in the register of persons acting as a foreign agent by the Ministry of Justice on September 29, 2021.