Moscow has opened a preliminary probe into the case of ten year old Yegor Shatabalov's adoption by American citizen Marcia Ann Brandt in 2007.
Russian officials claimed little orphan Maxim Kuzmin suffered an appalling death after being adopted to the US.
A preliminary criminal probe has been opened in Moscow amid allegations that the boy Yegor Shatabalov- now aged ten- was adopted under false pretences.
Russian family to adopt child born in April after his case was highlighted around the world.