As it became known from “”, an American basketball player Britney Griner in court in Khimki, she confessed to smuggling hash oil.
The second hearing in the drug trafficking case takes place on Thursday. Greiner said she had no intention of carrying luggage with drugs, that there was no intention of committing a crime, as she was going in a hurry. The basketball player asked to be interviewed another day. The Athlete communicated with the court through an interpreter.
The hearing was adjourned until July 14 at 2:30 p.m. Moscow time.
Brittney Greiner was arrested on February 17 at Sheremetyevo airport, she is charged under paragraph “c” of part 2 of Art. 229.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (smuggling of narcotics in large quantities, which provides for a term of imprisonment from 5 to 10 years). The 31-year-old basketball player, who has played for UMMC Yekaterinburg since 2015, twice won the Olympics as part of Team USA (2016, 2020) and appeared in WNBA All-Star Games seven times .
Source : MatchTV
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