Still, Adamov remains in custody because the Swiss federal justice department asked the criminal court to delay Adamov's release from custody until appealing to the federal court in Lausanne.
The justice department can within 30 days appeal to the Lausanne court, whose rulings are final and inappealable.
In addition, it has become known on Thursday that Adamov is again arrested in Switzerland, this time on the Russian request for extradition. It so turns out that, despite the decision of the Bellinzona court, Adamov will stay in jail now on the Russian request.
Basing on the extradition request, on June 7 the justice department issued the arrest warrant.
On Thursday the Bellinzona criminal court has satisfied the Adamov lawyers' May 17 appeal against the ruling of the justice department, which sanctioned Adamov's arrest in Berne.
The Bellinzona court has admitted that Adamov's arrest is a violation of international law and decided not only to release him from custody but also make up for Adamov's expenses on the case.
Atomic energy minister in 1998-2001, Adamov was detained in Berne on May 2 on request from the United States Department of Justice. At the present moment, Adamov, 66, is in Berne in jail.
The American authorities accuse him and his business partner, American citizen Mark Kaushanski, of appropriating nine million dollars allocated by the US government to Russia for nuclear safety projects.
In the United States Adamov faces up to 60 years in prison and a 1.75 million-dollar fine.
