Russia Says U.S. Agents Broke Law in Arresting Pilot in Liberia

American agents broke international law when they detained a Russian pilot in Liberia on May 28 on suspicion of conspiring to ship more than $100 million of cocaine into the U.S., Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.

“We are, in fact, dealing with the abduction of a Russian citizen on the territory of a third country,” the ministry said today on its website, adding that the U.S. didn’t inform Russia about the arrest of the pilot, Konstantin Yaroshenko. The “forced, secret transfer” of Yaroshenko to a New York prison was a “clear outrage,” the ministry said.