Russian arrested, transported from Male to Guam

A friend of mine, researching on a completely different subject, alerted me to this rare flight of a private jet from Male, Maldives to Guam’s civilian international airport:

flightaware.com/live/flight/VJT5 … /VRMM/PGUM

Turns out it’s all over the news now: A Russian lawmaker’s 30-year-old son, indicted in Washington State as a “carder” who stole a massive amount of US credit card information, was “arrested” on Guam. Russia accused the U.S. of “kidnapping” him from vacationing in the Maldives, but the island nation’s president has come out taking all responsibilities for the arrest and transport.