Yevgeny Adamov

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Evgeny Adamov (Yevgeny Adamov or Yevgeniy Adamov; Russian: Евге́ний Оле́гович Ада́мов) was the head of the Russian atomic energy ministry, MinAtom. He was appointed by President Boris Yeltsin in 1998 and ousted by President Vladimir Putin in 2001.

Adamov, a nuclear physicist, then joined the Dollezhal Institute.

In 2005, he was arrested in Bern, Switzerland, on fraud charges. The arrest was made at the request of the United States. The US accused Adamov of diverting up to $9 million which the US Energy Department gave Russia to help improve security at its nuclear facilities. Extradition requests were filed first by the USA and then by Russia, which has actively protested the move by the US. Adamov was finally extradited to Russia. The move was widely covered as a successful ploy by the Russian government to prevent Adamov from telling US authorities state secrets (and perhaps some criminal secrets) that he knew.

On February 20, 2008, he was convicted by the Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow, Russia of fraud and misuse of power and sentenced to 5.5 years or imprisonment.^[1]

He was released from jail when his sentence was suspended by a higher-level court on April 17, 2008.^[2]