A US soldier sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for alleged robbery and death threats in Russia

June 19 () –

A court has sentenced a United States soldier, identified as Gordon Black, to three years and nine months in prison, who had been arrested at the beginning of May in the Russian province of Vladivostok (east) accused of an alleged robbery and death threats. .

“The prison sentence of three years and nine months will be served in a general correctional colony. The term of the sentence is computed from the moment the sentence comes into effect,” said the judge, who has also ordered a compensation of 10,000 rubles (100 euros) to the victim.

For her part, the accused’s lawyer, Inga Kirichenko, who has insisted on the defendant’s innocence, has stated that she intends to appeal the sentence against her client, as reported by the TASS news agency.

The Russian Interior Ministry office in the Primorsky Territory indicated that the man was reported by a resident after the alleged robbery, while official US sources cited by the NBC television network indicated that the soldier was stationed in South Korea and that He traveled to Russia on his own and not on an official trip.

Washington has in the past denounced what it describes as unjust detentions of former Marine Paul Whelan and journalist Evan Gershkovich, of the newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’, within the framework of an alleged Moscow strategy to achieve prisoner exchanges.