Russia jails former US diplomat for drug smuggling


A Moscow court has sentenced former US diplomat Marc Fogel to 14 years in prison for ‘large-scale’ cannabis smuggling. – EPA pic, June 17, 2022.

A MOSCOW court has sentenced a former US diplomat to 14 years in prison for “large-scale” cannabis smuggling, the latest American to be caught up in Russia’s legal system. 

Russia and the United States regularly clash over the detention of each other’s citizens and sometimes exchange them in scenes reminiscent of the Cold War.


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