Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko. File photoMOSCOW, June 10. Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was convicted in the United States and returned to his homeland as a result of an exchange, said that he was preparing documents to hold the authorities of Liberia and the United States accountable. plans to hold the authorities of both the United States of America and Liberia accountable. Because the authorities of America and Liberia have violated almost all fundamental laws that currently exist or have existed,» Yaroshenko said at a press conference.
Bout's wife announced the deterioration of her husband's condition in an American prisonThe pilot emphasized that the United States and Liberia violated the Convention against Torture and the Convention on Human Rights, among other things.» documents in order to bring (to account — ed.) through international organizations, through European courts, through Russian courts… Because the United States convicted me on fictitious charges accusations,” he added. Yaroshenko was sentenced in the United States in 2011 to 20 years in prison on charges of preparing a conspiracy to deliver a large consignment of drugs to American territory. The Russian was transferred to the States from Liberia, where he was arrested in May 2010. At the end of April, Yaroshenko was exchanged for an American convicted in Russia, Trevor Reed, who was serving a 9-year sentence for attacking police officers in Moscow in 2019.
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