The Russian patriot, who is researching Harvard University, is arrested accused of smuggling

31 years old Russian national He was accused of smuggling biological materials after TSA at Logan Airport in Boston, and it is alleged that the hidden frigate embryos and fetal samples are in their luggage.

The accusation was charged with Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical College, in A. Criminal complaint On charges of smuggling goods to the United States, according to the US Public Prosecutor’s Office for Massachusetts. Petrova was originally detained on February 16, 2025 after law enforcement dogs alerted their treatment to their luggage.

the The American lawyer office said On Wednesday, Petrova denied denying the existence of biological materials at first, but later admitted to carrying them.

Prosecutors also claim that Petrova’s text messages show that they were aware that they needed a permit to bring the fracture embryos of the claws and Embryo That was allegedly found in her luggage. In one of the text messages that the office cited, Petrova was asked whether she had a plan to introduce biological materials in the United States, and they claimed that she replied by saying: “There is no plan yet. I will not be able to swallow it.”

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However, Gregory Romovsky, a lawyer who represents Petrova, said on Thursday that customs experts confirmed that his client “does not need a permit to bring in non -living scientific samples that are not considered a biological material under the American Customs Law.”

“Yesterday’s session at the Fermont provincial court confirmed that customs and border officials have no legal basis to cancel the KSENIIA visa and detain it on February 16.

“It is an attempt by the government to justify its obscene position and other than the legally unacceptable one that this world works for the United States regarding cancer and aging treatments has become a threat in some way. The government in the court yesterday confirmed its intention to deport KSENIIIA to Russia, where it will face a dangerous danger to the opposite of the Putin system.”

Petrova said in an interview New York Times She was returning to the United States after her vacation in Paris when Iss was detained in February. She also expressed her fear of arresting Russia if she was deported, because she was critical of the war in Ukraine.

The Russian scientist at the Harvard University Faculty of Medicine detained him at Boston Airport

While she admitted in the joints not to fill a customs model regarding the frog embryos in its luggage, I believed that this would lead to a fine or warning, not arrest.

“At Logan International Airport, I did not complete a customs advertisement for the frog fetus (to use it in our laboratory research) in my luggage. I was told that this usually leads to a warning or fine. Instead, my visa was canceled, and I was sent to a detention center in Louisiana.”

In her opening article, Petrova claimed that colleagues said that the laboratory-who was heading to Nuri’s only microscope in the world (short to photograph the natural Raman)-“Earth to stop” after her detention.

“With me there to help, the laboratory was unable to analyze the image data created by the microscope,” Petrova wrote.

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She also claimed that many of her colleagues are afraid of their presence The visa condition has been canceled And the detention, as “many” are “foreign scholars”.

On Wednesday, a grilled federal judge with government lawyers based on the abolition of a Petrova visa, I mentioned the Times. According to the judge, a bail hearing for Petrova later this month later.

Romanovsky NYT told that he believed the government raised the criminal charge against his client “to make KSENIIA look like a criminal to justify their efforts to deport it.” He also said that he and his client “were” suffering from the lack of a criminal complaint, “which came after the hearing on bail.