.A past USA paratrooper and rock artist confined in Russia greater than a year ago on medication costs was punished to 13 years behind bars on Thursday, the Moscow court system's media solution pointed out.Michael Travis Leake, that fronted the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was actually confined in June 2023 after prosecutors accused him of "coordinating a medicine dealing business entailing youngsters.".Moscow's Khamovnitchesky Court discovered him bad of unlawful acts linked to the sale of prohibited drugs, the court's press solution mentioned in a message on Telegram. He was punished to thirteen years in a maximum-security penitentiary swarm.Leake was actually put behind bars along with Veronika Grabanchuk, yet another offender convicted of medicine charges. Her relation to Leake was actually certainly not right away very clear.Arrests of U.S. people in Russia have increased in recent times, in what Washington considers a Kremlin ploy to safeguard the release of Russians founded guilty abroad.And many more American consumers kept in Russian prisons are former marines Robert Gilman as well as Paul Whelan, in addition to reporters Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva.