27 August 2016, 15:54 GMT
YEREVAN (Sputnik) – A court in Armenia ruled to release Russian citizen Sergei Mironov, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Monday, witnessing him leaving the courthouse with his lawyer and a Russian diplomat.
Mironov, 33, was detained in Yerevan on Saturday, his lawyer Karen Nersesyan said. US authorities suspect Mironov of laundering $50,000 and illegal technology transfer, Nersesyan added.
"I cannot talk at the moment, I am very hungry," Mironov told the news agency in a request for comment before boarding a vehicle with diplomatic license plates.
Nersesyan stressed that Mironov, employed at the Moscow office of the Synesis intelligent video surveillance developer, had no access to military technology and had visited the United States only once in 2013.
