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31-year-old Russian citizen He is charged with smuggling biological material after TSA allegedly found samples for embryos and embryonic embryonic samples at the luggage at Boston Airport at Boston Logan.
Kseniia Petrova, researcher at the Harvard Medical School, was charged with UA Criminal report With one number of smuggling goods in the United States, according to the US lawyer for Massachusetts. Petrova was originally detained on February 16, 2025. After a dog for the implementation of the law warned his manager at the luggage.
AND Said US lawyer On Wednesday, Petrov allegedly denied that biological material was at first, but later admitted to carrying it.
Prosecutors also claim that Petrov’s text messages show that she was aware that she needed a permit to bring embryo with frogs and embryonic patterns which were allegedly found in her luggage. In an exchange of text messages quoted by the office, Petrova asked if she had a plan to insert biological material into the US, and allegedly answered, saying, “There is no plan. I will not be able to swallow them.”
Russian scientist from Harvard Kseniia Petrov ‘consciously’ smuggled illegal objects for us: Federi
This undisputed photograph provided by Polyina Pugacheva in April 2025. She shows Ksenia Petrova, a scientist born in Russia who was a researcher at Harvard University. (POLINA PUGACHEVO BY AP, FILE)
However, Gregory Romanovsky, a lawyer who represented Petrov, said on Thursday that the customs experts confirmed that his client “did not need a permit to bring in her non -scientific patterns who are not considered as biological material under US customs law.”
“Yesterday’s hearing at the Federal District Court in Vermont confirmed that customs and border patrol officials did not have a legal basis for canceling Kseniia and detained it on February 16th. Less than two hours after the vermont judge set up a hearing on the release of Kseniia, she was at a time being transmitted from ICE.”
“It is an attempt by the Government to justify its incredible and legally indefinable position that this scientist who works in the US in the treatment of cancer and the aging of research has somehow become a danger to the community. The Government confirmed yesterday that the intention of deportations of Ksenia in Russia, where he knows that he will face a serious danger for the opponent’s opponent’s regime.
– Petrova said in a recent New York Times op-ed that she was returning to the US after a vacation in Paris when she was closed by ice in February. She also expressed her fear of arrest in Russia if she was deported because she was a critic of the war in Ukraine.
Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformist at Kirschner Laboratory, returned the embryo of a frog at the request of a professor at the French laboratory Harvard cooperates, and her lawyer Gregory Romanovsky confirmed Fox News. (Lawyer of Kseniia Petrov Gregory Romanovsky)
Russian scientist at the Harvard Medical School closed by ICE at Boston Airport
Although she admitted in OP-Edit that she did not meet the customs pattern regarding the embryo embryo in the luggage, she believed that it would result in a fine or warning rather than arrest.
“At the Logan International Airport, I did not complete the Customs of the Embrio of the Frog (for use in the research of our laboratory) in my luggage. I was told it would usually result in a warning or fine. Instead, my visa was seized and I was sent to detention in Louisiani,” Petrov wrote.
Petrova claimed in her OPDE that colleagues say that the laboratory-doma is the only Nori world (briefly for normalized Raman recording) of the microscope-“soil to stop” after custody.
“Without me to help, the lab could not analyze the pictures of the picture data that the microscope generated,” Petrov wrote.
Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformist at Kirschner Laboratory, returned the embryo frog at the request of a professor at the French laboratory he cooperated with. (Facebook)
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She also claimed that several of her colleagues are afraid of having their recalled visa status And because they are detained, as “many” are “foreign scientists.”
On Wednesday, a federal judge on the grill of government lawyers for their reasons to cancel Vis and custody of Petrova, Times reported. The judge allegedly ordered a hearing for Petrov later this month.
Romanovsky told Nyt that he believed that the Government had filed a criminal complaint against his client “to make Kseniia look like a criminal to justify their efforts to deport her.” He also said that he and his client “blinded the abolition of a criminal report without merit,” which came after the warranty hearing.
