Key Facts
—The order. Portaria 6.737, published in the official gazette on Monday, expels Cherkasov and bars his return for thirty years.
—The sentence. He is serving five years for identity fraud, reduced from an original fifteen.
—The cover. Investigators say he lived twelve years as the Brazilian Victor Muller Ferreira, entering the country around 2010.
—The network. Federal Police identified at least nine suspected Russian agents using Brazilian documents.










