Switzerland has been urged to extradite a former Olympic gymnast who is believed to be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s secret lover.

38-year-old Alina Kabaeva is a former gold medalist and Putin’s suspected mistress who has been seen with the Russian dictator on countless occasions. The pair is also widely rumored to have children though these claims have been denied by Putin.

As a previous investigation conducted by Putin’s opponent Alexei Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation revealed, Kabaeva and her family were bestowed various property and monetary gifts by several Russian oligarchs.

The opponents of Putin have since the invasion of Ukraine also alleged that Kabaeva was sent to a private luxury resort in Switzerland in early March.

In a petition asking Switzerland for the gymnast’s extradition, the creators insisted the former gymnast was in hiding in the neutral country together with Putin’s illegitimate children.

“We, the citizens of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, which is currently undergoing immense suffering, are uniting to appeal to the Swiss authorities,” the Change.org petition which was signed by more than 55,000 people reads.

“The public has just learned that the Russian political and media figure, and former [gymnast], Alina Kabaeva, is hiding [from] the consequences of the sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation in your country.”

Though the West has not yet put Kabaeva, who is also a National Media Group chairman, on the list of sanctioned Russians, the petition has accused Switzerland of breaking neutrality for the first time in modern history by “hosting an accomplice of Putin’s regime.”

“She is the favorite wife of [the] delusional dictator and war criminal who has been treacherously attacking Ukraine over the past weeks,” the petition adds.

“As she is supportive of social activities in Russia, she has been attempting to get Russian citizens accustomed to the reality of sanctions after 2014, and personally proclaimed: ‘The worse it gets, the better for us!’”

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