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Russia sentences US teacher for Cannabis Smuggling
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Russia sentences US teacher for Cannabis Smuggling

Russia has sentences a former US diplomat and teacher to fourteen years in prison for a "huge-scale" cannabis smuggling. Marc Fogel had formerly labored at the US embassy in Moscow. However, he was employed as an English instructor withinside the town at the time of his arrest. Fogel was sentenced withinside the identical jurisdiction as the hearing of a marijuana-associated case against US basketball star Brittney Griner.Cannabis is legal in lots of parts of the US. However, it stays illegal in Russia. "American citizen Fogel has been found guilty," a courtroom docket within side the Moscow suburb of Khimki stated in a statement. The press release stated that the US teacher had committed a "huge-scale drugs smuggling" along with a "huge-scale unlawful possession of drugs without a busine...