A Russian national was detained in Helsinki Airport – Vantaa at the request of the United States, the consular department of the Russian embassy in Finland told Sputnik.
“On December 15, the Finnish Border Guard detained a Russian national, Terada Mira, born in 1988 (Oksana Vovk before 2017) as she was going to Spain from St. Petersburg with a transit stop in Vantaa Airport. On the same day, the Finnish authorities notified Russia about the incident. Particularly, they told us that she was detained under an Interpol warrant at the request of the US authorities,” the consulate said.
A consulate staffer visited Terada in prison on December 17. The Russian national told the official she had been accused of violating laws on the war on drugs and money laundering during her stay in the United States between 2013 and 2016. Terada denied her guilt.