The son of a senior official has been put on Russian authorities wanted list for alleged money laundering.
The Interfax news agency reported this on Friday, citing Russia’s Interior Ministry.
Artyom Uss is the man in question, his father Alexander Uss is the governor of the Greater Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia.
Artyom was arrested in Italy last week for attempting to circumvent sanctions on Russia.
Russian officials had accused Italy of political persecution at the time.
According to the Governor, his son was arrested in Italy for supplying petroleum products, commonly available equipment and technical means that are freely bought and sold all over the world.
Governor Uss said the arrest was politically motivated.
Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson also condemned the practice of such arrests of Russian citizens abroad.
The authorities had not yet commented on the newly emerged criminal proceedings against Artyom in Russia.
According to reports, Artyom was not the only relative of high-ranking Russian politicians to have run into trouble abroad recently, following the wave of sanctions against Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
The son of former railway chief Vladimir Yakunin, who was considered one of President Vladimir Putin’s top confidants for years, was arrested after launching a drone on the island of Spitsbergen In Norway.
The Arctic island was considered strategically important to Russia, as they wanted to extend mining rights for coal there, among other factors.