money laundering investigation against the daughter of former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov has been dropped, Swiss prosecutors said Thursday.
A freeze on assets and bank accounts belonging to Irina Adamova has also been lifted, Jeannette Balmer, a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutors' office, told The Associated Press.
Balmer said the case against Adamova, who has lived in Switzerland since 1992, was discontinued last month because of insufficient evidence.
Yevgeny Adamov is currently facing charges in Russia of abuse of power and fraud, and could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Dismissed from his post in March 2001 following a corruption investigation by Russia's State Duma, or lower house of parliament, Adamov was arrested four years later on a U.S. warrant while visiting his daughter in the Swiss capital, Bern. U.S. justice officials accused him of diverting up to US$9 million from funds intended to improve Russian nuclear security into private projects in the U.S., Ukraine and Russia.
After a prolonged U.S.-Russia legal battle, the neutral country extradited the nuclear scientist to Moscow in December 2005.
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