The Russian woman spoke about the process of her husband's mistaken detention in Armenia

On July 16, Maria, the wife of Russian Alexander Yurov, who was mistakenly detained at Yerevan airport, told Izvestia about the process of her husband's detention.

She stated that an employee approached the border control and showed a photo of the detainee from social networks on his phone. The girl was asked if her husband was in the photo. Next, the couple went into the room, where Alexander stated that there could have been a mix-up and there were no problems.

"He was sure that he had not committed any criminal acts, so he was absolutely calm," Yurova said.

In addition, the spouse noted that she was supposed to take the first flight from Armenia, but the flight was delayed for three hours. According to her, all this time she was trying to find out how her husband was doing. She added that she went to the police and tried to find out the reasons for the detention. Law enforcement officers, as Yurova clarified, said that her husband had "problems with documents."

The couple was shown a document stating that they had been detained for 30 days for cyberbullying, which was the fault of hacker Alexander Ermakov, the namesake of the man arrested by mistake.

Yurova stressed that her husband is not related to the field of information technology and has never violated the law. Ermakov himself considers the incident a misunderstanding and a coincidence of data.

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Earlier in the day, lawyers for the Moscow bureau of MOORE reported that a Russian was detained in Armenia at the request of the United States, mistakenly mistaking him for an extortionist hacker wanted by Interpol. Izvestia obtained a document from the agency stating that the wanted criminal participated in attacks using the Sodinokibi (REvil) extortion program. This is a computer virus that was developed by a hacker group from Russia. In 2022, her activities were suppressed by the FSB.

The detainee's lawyer, Dylan Rajavi, said on July 16 that the Armenian police, who confused Ermakov with an extortionist hacker, could have made a mistake due to the lack of a patronymic in the United States. According to the lawyer, the tourist has nothing to do with the IT field: the detainee has worked as a lawyer in the FSIN system all his life, but he does not have a programmer's education.