22 Feb 2013 15:41

Moscow court rejects plea to arrest Dima Yakovlev's adoptive father in absentia

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Moscow's Basmanny Court has turned down investigators' request for issuing an arrest warrant in absentia for U.S. citizen Miles Harrison, the adoptive American father of Russian boy Dima Yakovlev, killed in the United States. The reason cited was that Harrison was acquitted in the United States.

"The court rejected the investigators' request given that Harrison was acquitted in the United States," the court's spokesperson Yekaterina Korotova told Interfax.

The request has been heard this week, she said.

Korotova also said that the request for arresting the O'Brian couple was rejected because their case is still being heard in the United States and the trial will last two years at a minimum.