On June 10, the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow arrested 51-year-old US citizen Michael Travis Leak in a large-scale drug trafficking case, the combined press service of the city courts reported.
Lik is suspected of selling mephedrone “with the involvement of young people”, he will stay in the pre-trial detention center until August 6 (paragraph “d” of part 4 of article 228.1 of the Criminal Code). Earlier, in the same case, an acquaintance of Lik, Russian woman Valeria Grobanyuk, was arrested, TASS was specified in the press service of the court.
Lik has been living in Moscow for about ten years. He is a former American paratrooper, and now a musician of the Seize the Night group. On the page of the group on VKontakte, it is said that Lik also produces the groups Louna, Slot and Cockroaches!
REN TV, citing a law enforcement source, said that on June 6, the security forces conducted a search in Lik's apartment, during which they found «scales, zip bags, electrical tape and substances of unknown origin.» According to the interlocutor of the TV channel, Lik said that he «does not understand what he could have done and what he is accused of.» The State Department said that it «is aware of the detention of a US citizen in Moscow.»
In August 2022, a court in the Moscow Region sentenced American basketball player Brittney Griner to 9 years in prison in a drug possession and smuggling case (Part 1 of Article 228 , point «c» of part 2 of article 229.1 of the Criminal Code). The two-time Olympic champion was detained at Sheremetyevo Airport — vape cartridges with hash oil were found in her hand luggage. In December, she was exchanged for Russian Viktor Bout.
At the end of March 2023, Evan Gershkovich, a journalist for the American newspaper Wall Street Journal, was detained in Yekaterinburg. The Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow sent him to a pre-trial detention center on a case of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code). -cite__image» alt=»1″ />«In short, you are guilty.» The court sentenced basketball player Britney Griner to 9 years in prison — a report from Khimki