.A previous USA paratrooper as well as rock musician apprehended in Russia greater than a year earlier on medication fees was punished to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court of law unit's press solution mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually confined in June 2023 after prosecutors implicated him of "arranging a medication working business involving youths.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court discovered him guilty of unlawful acts attached to the sale of illegal drugs, the courtroom's media service mentioned in a blog post on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security prison nest.Leake was actually put behind bars along with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another accused sentenced of medicine fees. Her association to Leake was certainly not promptly very clear.Arrests of U.S. citizens in Russia have improved in recent times, in what Washington sees as a Kremlin tactic to safeguard the launch of Russians convicted abroad.And many more United States citizens composed Russian prisons are actually past marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, and also reporters Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.