A subcommittee of the Russian state prosecutor is demanding that Paavo Salonen answer kidnapping charges, according to the Russian news agency Itar-Tass.
Pasi Tuominen, Director of the Consular Services Section at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, told YLE that Finland has not received an official extradition request.
On Tuesday, a court in Tampere convicted Rimma Salonen, Anton’s Russian mother, of kidnapping her son in the spring of 2008. She was found guilty of taking Anton to Russia without the permission of the boy's Finnish father. She was handed a suspended sentence of 1.5 years.
