The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it had issued an official protest to the United States demanding immediate release of a Russian citizen detained last week on hacking charges. Moscow accused Washington of kidnapping Roman Seleznev who was detained at an airport in the Maldives and accused of hacking into U.S. retailers' computer systems to steal credit card data. "From our side, we stressed the unacceptability of such actions which are a flagrant violation of the legitimate rights and interests of the Russian citizen, who was in fact kidnapped from the territory of a third country," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "We again demanded the immediate release of Roman Seleznev, providing him with adequate medical care and in general respecting his legal rights and interests," the ministry said.
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