Russia exchanged American Reed for pilot Yaroshenko
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that following a long negotiation process, on April 27, the exchange of experience in the Russian Federation between American Trevor Reed and Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko was completed.
“As a result of a lengthy negotiation process, on April 27, 2022, a preliminary appeal arose in the US citizen of the Russian Federation, Trevor Rowdy Reed, against the citizen of the Russian Federation, Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was probably sentenced to 20 years in prison,” Maria Zakharova in Russia said in a statement. Telegram channel.
Konstantin Yaroshenko was arrested in Liberia in 2010 on charges of preparing to transport a large consignment of cocaine, then he was deported to the United States. In September 2011, an American court found him guilty. Yaroshenko was sentenced to 20 years of viewing. Repeated petitions to pardon Konstantin Yaroshenko are inappropriate, including the appeal of the pilot’s family to US President Joe Biden in the spring of 2021.
Former student and US Marine Trevor Reed was detained in Moscow on August 16, 2019. Police called by the outside world due to a conflict between a student and two women. Arriving police arrested his calm, but on the way to the office he tore the uniform of the policeman driving and hit his partner. In July 2020, the Moscow Head Court sentenced Rida to nine years in a penal colony. He served his sentence in a Mordovian colony. In addition, the Americans ordered you to prosecute a policeman for 100 thousand rubles. exploitation.
Reed’s defense argued that the accused did not give an account of his actions because he was very drunk, and the police slandered him in the absence of video recordings. It is also possible that the American may become a member of the forum of Russians Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who experience negative emotions in the United States.
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