Israel ‘extradites’ priest accused of child abuse to Russia

ISRAEL/RUSSIA
BBC News

Israel has reportedly begun the extradition of a Russian priest accused of sexually abusing young girls, nearly three years after Russia asked for it.

Gleb Grozovsky was handed over to the Russian prison service and Interpol officers for the flight to Moscow, Russian prosecutors say.

He denies corrupting two girls aged nine and 12 at a Russian Orthodox summer camp in Greece in June 2013.

Prosecutors accuse him of similar attacks in Russia itself in 2011.

Russia first asked for the priest’s extradition in November 2013, when he was in Israel on Church business.

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