Mordovia Supreme Court to process motion for Paul Whelan's transfer to U.S. on Sept 27 - lawyer

MOSCOW. Sept 8 (Interfax) - The Supreme Court of Mordovia has scheduled for late September the hearing of a motion for the transfer of U.S. citizen Paul Whelan, who was convicted of spying in Russia, to the United States where he would serve the remaining time.

"The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on September 27," Whelan's lawyers Olga Karlova and Vladimir Zherebenkov told Interfax.

Whelan, currently incarcerated in a penitentiary in Mordovia, is expected to attend the hearing in person.