On Tuesday, she refused to comment on her father's arrest in Bern to RIA Novosti, as well as on reports that a probe had been under way in Switzerland into her alleged involvement in money laundering.
According to Adamova herself who has resided in Switzerland since 1992, her lawyer has flatly forbidden her to talk to the Russian media.
Adamova's lawyer Christoph Dumartheray has been unavailable for comment. "Sure, the situation is so that he (the lawyer) grants interview not to every paper," Irina Adamova said.
Nonetheless, right after the former Russian atomic energy minister, Yevgeny Adamov, had been arrested in Bern, his daughter Irina gave an interview to Swiss television program 10x10. She told RIA Novosti she had had a special agreement with the program.
"I reached an agreement with them that I would give interviews only to them if I want at all. This is our bilateral agreement, and I cannot violate it, because it is not customary," she says.
In her interview to the 10x10 program, Adamova said her father had been deliberately "lured to the trap" by inviting him to Bern for an interview within the framework of the money laundering case under way against her in Switzerland. Due to this investigation, Irina Adamova's personal bank accounts and those of her consulting company were frozen.
"My father came for the interview but four hours later I was told he would have to stay," Adamova told 10x10.
Irina Adamova's lawyer Christoph Dumartheray earlier said that her case was unrelated to the charges brought against her father by the US authorities.
Irina Adamova, 30, is a resident of the town of Bremgarten, the canton of Bern. Yevgeny Adamov was reported to have come to the Swiss capital, Bern, to settle the financial problems of his daughter.
According to Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeigers, Irina Adamova's company, whose name has not been named, provides consulting services on Moscow's residential development market.
Yevgeny Adamov, the Russian atomic energy minister in 1998-2001, was arrested in Bern on May 2. The arrest of the 66-year-old former minister was ordered by a district court of a western county in Pennsylvania (US). Adamov is in custody in Bern pending his extradition to the United States.
On May 2, the Swiss authorities asked the United States for an official extradition request that can be submitted within 40-60 days. Adamov was offered an expedited extradition to the United States, which he rejected.
The US authorities accuse him and his business partner Mark Kaushansky of embezzling $9 million allocated to Russia by the US Department of Energy to improve its nuclear security systems.
Adamov is facing up to 60 years in jail in the United States and a $1.75 million fine.
