.A past U.S. paratrooper and rock performer restrained in Russia more than a year earlier on medication fees was actually punished to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court of law unit's media company pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, that overlooked the Moscow-based stone band Lovi Noch, was actually detained in June 2023 after district attorneys charged him of "managing a medicine working business including youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Courtroom found him responsible of criminal offenses linked to the sale of prohibited anesthetics, the courtroom's media solution pointed out in a post on Telegram. He was actually punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was actually incarcerated along with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another defendant pronounced guilty of drug costs. Her relationship to Leake was actually certainly not instantly very clear.Arrests of U.S. people in Russia have actually improved over the last few years, in what Washington views as a Kremlin ploy to secure the release of Russians pronounced guilty abroad.And many more United States citizens held in Russian jails are actually former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, and also journalists Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.