The British-Russian son of a close Vladimir Putin ally has been arrested in Norway for flying a drone in a restricted area, Norwegian Police said today.
Andrei Yakunin, 47, was arrested on Monday in Hammerfest in northern Norway, according to police and court documents.
Police have accused Yakunin – the son of ex-Russian Railways boss Vladimir Yakunin, who is considered to be close to Putin – of illegally flying a drone in the Svalbard archipelago, located in the geopolitically strategic…