Brazil has denied the United States's request to extradite alleged Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security announced Thursday.

The ministry said it had received two requests to extradite Cherkasov, one from the U.S. and one from Russia, which it received first and plans to honor.

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Brazil's justice minister, Flavio Dino, said Cherkasov would remain in Brazil for now, while his lawyer, Paulo Ferreira, told CBS News his client's extradition to Russia "will only be executed after the final judgment of all his cases here in Brazil."

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Cherkasov in March with acting as an agent of a foreign power, visa fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, and other charges alleging that he used a Brazilian alias, Victor Muller Ferreira, to apply for a graduate school program in the District of Columbia and to obtain a visa.

Cherkasov began acting as a Russian spy in 2012 under the Brazilian cover identity, according to the criminal complaint filed by U.S. prosecutors. He received a U.S. visa to attend Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., where he continued to report to his handlers in Russia’s military intelligence service.

Later on, he also tried to gain a job with the International Criminal Court under his alias, though his true identity was uncovered. Cherkasov returned to Brazil after being turned away, and he was arrested on fraud charges stemming from his use of the false Ferreira identity.

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Days after the DOJ released the charges against Cherkasov, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on espionage charges. The Biden administration quickly determined Gershkovich to be wrongfully detained, which is a legal definition decided on by the State Department.

His arrest in late March was the first detention of an American reporter in Russia on allegations of spying since the Cold War, further straining an already poor relationship between Moscow and Washington.