INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian court has jailed a former U.S
passing through customs at a Moscow airport in August 2021, when 11 grams of marijuana and eight grams of hash oil was reportedly found in
his luggage.He had worked at the U.S
Embassy in Moscow until May 2021, acccording to the Russian authorities
human rights council and prison watchdog said at the time.Fogel maintained that the marijuana was prescribed by a U.S
in Russian prisons amid bilateral tensions, with former U.S
Marine Paul Whelan and basketball star Brittney Griner most prominent among them.Another ex-Marine, Trevor Reed, was in April exchanged for
Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was convicted in the U.S
on drug smuggling charges.
