Russian kickboxer to be extradited from Norway on Friday
"Tomorrow Vyacheslav Datsik will be deported from Norway. It is expected that he will be brought to St. Petersburg from Oslo by airplane in the first half of the day," the source said.
So far, Itar-Tass has no official confirmation of this information.
Datsin, also known as Red Tarzan, was arrested in Russia in 2007 after a robbery of a shop selling cellular telephones. The court declared him of diminished responsibility and placed to a mental hospital outside the Leningrad region. After he escaped from the hospital a month later he was put on the federal wanted list. On September 22, 2010, he showed at a police station in Norway wearing a T-short with Nazi symbols. He surrendered a loaded gun and ask for political asylum. On September 23, the Oslo court ruled to put him in custody for four weeks for further consideration of his case.
On October 18, 2010, Russian Prosecutor General's Office channeled and official request to Norway to extradite the man. By that time, and to be more precise, on October 14, he was put on the international wanted list.
On October 7, 2010, Norway's migration service refused political asylum to Datsik and the Oslo court sentenced him to eight months behind bars. He was charged with unlicensed possession of firearms, illegal possession of munitions and wearing a loaded gun in a public place. The aggravating circumstance was his possession of a large number of arms, including a gun, a rifle, four revolvers and cartridges. The court ruled to diminish his sentence by 98 days he had spen in an investigative ward. Moreover, he is to pay 4,000 Norwegian krones (667 U.S. dollars) to compensate court expenses; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.