.A previous USA paratrooper and rock entertainer detained in Russia much more than a year back on medication fees was actually punished to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court system's media company mentioned.Michael Travis Leake, that overlooked the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually apprehended in June 2023 after prosecutors implicated him of "managing a medicine working service involving young people.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court located him guilty of unlawful acts attached to the purchase of prohibited anesthetics, the courthouse's media solution stated in a message on Telegram. He was actually sentenced to thirteen years in a maximum-security prison swarm.Leake was put behind bars together with Veronika Grabanchuk, an additional accused pronounced guilty of medicine fees. Her association to Leake was actually certainly not right away very clear.Arrests of USA citizens in Russia have improved in the last few years, in what Washington considers a Kremlin ploy to protect the release of Russians sentenced abroad.Among other American consumers kept in Russian jails are actually former marines Robert Gilman and also Paul Whelan, along with reporters Evan Gershkovich and also Alsu Kurmasheva.