Gregory Duralev

As it turned out later, the official narrative signed by the immigration officers revealed that the real reason of the conducted arrest was the INTERPOL Red Notice issued for Gregory Duralev on Russian request even though such an arrest in specific circumstances was outside of the official power given to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by the United States legislation. Gregory Duralev was sent to the immigration detention that was situated in the maximum security prison - Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, California from where he was relocated several times to the different immigration facilities in California. Until early 2020, when Duralev was released on Immigration bond, he had been detained for approximately 525 days in the United States for administrative violation that he had never committed.

Arriving in the United States, he applied for political asylum on January 25, 2016 and was permitted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to remain in the United States until his application would be decided. However, in September 2018, while awaiting the decision of his asylum application, he was arrested by the subdevision of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles on the charge of remaining in the United States without permission notwithstanding that the permission allowing Gregory Duralev to remain in the United States as an asylum seeker was still valid.

After he was released Gregory Duralev applied and was admitted to the Washington University School of Law. Gregory Duralev is still pursuing his immigration case along with the reinstatement of his right that should have been secured but was violated by the United States having undertaken the important international legal obligation before the United Nations under Refugee Act of 1980 and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1967.

Gregory Duralev (born 3 March 1979) is a Russian former bodybuilder, businessman, and economist who fled his home country in 2015 after writing his civil initiative on Strategy to develop the Russian economy by supporting medium and small business and comprehensive program to fight against corruption and uploading it directly to the website of the President of Russia V.V. Putin. Subsequently, Duralev being charged with fraud under fabricated allegations.