The wife of Russian businessman and alleged...

Alla Bout said in a letter addressed to the Russian authorities that the behavior of the United States toward her husband violated international legal norms.

She also said that such U.S. activities must be stopped, or the superpower would continue to act illegally, disregard Russian sovereignty and prosecute any Russian citizen it accuses of crimes committed in third countries.

Alla Bout said her husband had never been to the United States, and did not have any bank accounts or businesses in the country.

"I am seriously worried about my husband"s health," she said, adding that the U.S. authorities were doing everything they could to break her husband down both emotionally and physically, and "to throw dirt to Russia through this much publicized case."

Former Russian army officer Bout, 43, remains in custody in a Thai jail after the Bangkok Criminal Court refused in August to extradite him to the United States, where he is facing four terrorism-related

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