Former Wagner Group commander Andrey Medvedev reportedly has been arrested by Norway after trying to enter Russia through its arctic border, a report says.
to 14 days in jail for disorderly conduct and for carrying an air gun in a public place, over his alleged role in a bar brawl in the Norwegian capital of Oslo in February.
"He was up there to see if he could find the place where he crossed [into Norway in January]. He was stopped when he was in a taxi. He was never near the border. . . . It was never his intention to cross the border [into Russia]," Risnes said. Former Wagner commander Andrey Medvedev is pictured in court with his lawyer, Brynjulf Risnes, in Oslo, Norway, in April.
But then months later, Medvedev said in a YouTube video that he wanted to return to his homeland despite the risks, the news agency added. committing violence against police officersHe admitted resisting arrest and spitting when he was put in handcuffs but denied kicking the officers, Risnes had said during the proceedings, according to the Associated Press.
"It is very good that he was acquitted for what was the most serious," Risnes later told the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet following the verdict.
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