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MOSCOW, Apr 27The aircraft with pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko landed in Moscow. it is, «of course, not very good.» «What did the US authorities do to me during these 12 years from the moment of abduction, from the moment of torture, and the attitude towards me in American prisons was not the best,» he added.
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The pilot was previously exchanged for US citizen Trevor Reed, convicted in Russia. The Russian, whom an American court found guilty of drug trafficking, was arrested in May 2010 in Liberia and taken to the United States. At the same time, the US mission did not report this to the Russian consulate. According to Yaroshenko, in Liberia, after his arrest, he was tortured: beaten, deprived of sleep and starved, strangled. At the trial, he pleaded not guilty. Since 1998, the Russian has been engaged in passenger transportation, and after the collapse of the USSR, according to him, he did not carry any cargo at all and worked as an expert on the technical condition of aircraft. /> Viktor Bout's wife hopes for the continuation of the work of the Foreign Ministry to release her husband He declined to appeal to the US Supreme Court. In prison, he repeatedly complained about health problems and lack of medical care. According to investigators, in Moscow in August 2019, Trevor Reid had a fight on the street with two women. The police officers who arrived at the scene decided to take him to the department, but on the way he hit one of them and attacked the second, who was driving. The court sentenced him to nine years in prison.
Yaroshenko's wife told the details of his exchange