The 33-year-old ballet dancer and spa working lives in Los Angeles, but after being apprehended while on the visit to Russia, "The court found Ksenia Karelina guilty of high treason and sentenced her to 12 years’ imprisonment in a general regime colony," according to a statement of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court.
Prosecutors had initially sought a 15-year jail term after Russia's FSB charged that the organization she gave to raises money to provide arms to the Ukrainian military.
And it appears she actually made the transaction while living and working in the United States. The BBC details:
Russian human rights activists said while living in the US she had made a single transfer of $51.80 on the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 22 February 2022. The FSB is thought to have discovered the transaction on her phone.
Her lawyer, Mikhail Mushailov, said Karelina had only admitted transferring the money and believed the funds would help victims on both sides. He told Russian media she would appeal against the sentence.
The charity in question is "Razom for Ukraine" and was founded in the US. It says it is focused on disaster relief and providing humanitarian aid in war-ravaged Ukraine.
The formal charges by prosecutors stated "proactively transferring funds to a Ukrainian organization, which the Ukrainian armed forces subsequently used to purchase tactical medicine, equipment, weapons and ammunition," the Moscow Times reported.
Karelina's case was actually held in the same court as The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich, who was freed in a major prisoner swap deal between Moscow and Washington earlier this month.
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Only a beta and virgin Spaz would call it his “Johnson.”
I remember my made-up stock portfolio "I'm richer than you are" internet shit-talking days.
You're lying.
Go ahead Chris, list all our prisoners being held in the UK and for what reason. I'll wait!
Russia reloading. We must have another Russian arms trader that Putin wants released.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/another-american-given-12-year-prison-sentence-russia
The 33-year-old ballet dancer and spa working lives in Los Angeles, but after being apprehended while on the visit to Russia, "The court found Ksenia Karelina guilty of high treason and sentenced her to 12 years’ imprisonment in a general regime colony," according to a statement of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court.
Prosecutors had initially sought a 15-year jail term after Russia's FSB charged that the organization she gave to raises money to provide arms to the Ukrainian military.
And it appears she actually made the transaction while living and working in the United States. The BBC details:
The charity in question is "Razom for Ukraine" and was founded in the US. It says it is focused on disaster relief and providing humanitarian aid in war-ravaged Ukraine.
The formal charges by prosecutors stated "proactively transferring funds to a Ukrainian organization, which the Ukrainian armed forces subsequently used to purchase tactical medicine, equipment, weapons and ammunition," the Moscow Times reported.
Karelina's case was actually held in the same court as The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich, who was freed in a major prisoner swap deal between Moscow and Washington earlier this month.
I'm not willing trade any more arms dealers to get @HuskyBuck back from Russia.
Can I call you "Big Dumbshit" when obvious sarcasm whooshes you?
JFC. You even posted a video of it.
Sad.
More telling overcompensation than @BareBacker realizes.
@HuskyBuck proven wrong on Russia sentencing Americans because the Retard in Chief exchanges war criminals for American tourists in Russia.
The idiot allegedly left this place but the stench and couch stain remains.
Why does Hamas take hostages? So they can get PRISONERS back in return. Like 5x- it's how the underworld operates.
Shocker, we now negotiate with terrorists... so this won't stop