After a prisoner change in Abu Dhabi, US basketball participant Britney Griner has now landed again within the United States, after being exchanged with Russian palms broker Viktor Bout.
Griner was once arrested in February on fees of making an attempt to smuggle medication into Russia. She was once detained in a Russian airport after Cannabis oil was once present in her baggage.
Her arrest was once thrown right into a geopolitical dispute between the United States and Russia, with tensions simmering on the time with the War in Ukraine. US president Joe Biden got here below scrutiny for now not intervening to retrieve the American faster.
But he did welcome the inside track of Griner’s liberate, status beside the basketball megastar’s spouse, pronouncing that Griner “is in good spirits”.
The ‘Merchant of Death’
Viktor Bout was once welcomed house to his mom and spouse with tears in his eyes. Known because the “Merchant of Death”, he was once arrested in 2008 in a sting operation in Thailand by way of the FBI seeking to smuggle guns. He was once then extradited in 2010 to the United States.
Griner’s liberate does spotlight some other factor. Canadian-born and previous US marine Paul Whelan continues to be imprisoned in Russia since 2019, on suspicion of spying. A senior legit spoke at period with Whelan about Wednesday’s information.
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