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American citizen arrested in Russia Earlier this month, due to charges of drug smuggling, it was released from Russian custody.
Kalob Wayne Byers, 28, was detained on February 7 at the Vnukovo airport in Moscow after customer officials allegedly found Marmalad with cannabis. Byers traveled from Istanbul with his Russian fiancé, who was also detained.
It was not immediately clear whether the Byers fiancé, which was identified by the Russian media as Naid Mambet. Was placed in custody for prior conviction on the same accusations.
Russian authorities have announced that byers tried to smuggle a “significant amount of” drug in the country. He was detained for charges of drug smuggling, punishing up to a decade of prison.
American detained in Russia identified as Calob Wayne Byers
Kalob Byers, 28, was detained in Russia on February 7 for charges of drug smuggling. (Moscow City Court in Press Office/Reuters)
Byers, now released by Russian custody, remains at the US Embassy in Moscow while waiting for a flight home, his parents wrote on social networks, according to Russian independent edition of the Jellyfish news. An American official confirmed that Byers had been released to the Embassy late Sunday night, according to Associated Press.
It seems that Russia that released byers is part of the effort to ease the tension between Moscow and Washington in front of He talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
When asked by Byers, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday that Moscow expects to “talk about the reconstruction of the entire Rusko-American relations complex” at the Saudi Arabian meeting “, so that certain events can be viewed in this context.”
The tensions between the two countries have already begun to soften in recent weeks.
An American citizen arrested in Russia earlier this month for charges of drug smuggling was published on the eve of a conversation in Saudi Arabia between Moscow and Washington. (Contribution/Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Last week, President Donald Trump increased three years of US politics to Ukraine and Russia, stating that he and the Russian president Vladimir Putin He agreed to begin negotiations on the end of the war.
The Americans arrested in Russia have become increasingly becoming more often in recent years, because the relations between Moscow and Washington broke out due to the Russian war against Ukraine, which began in February 2022.
Some Americans were released into captive exchange, including Marc Fogel, a Pennsylvania teacher who was in prison in Russia for drug charges. He was released last week.
Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik, left, was replaced by American teacher Marc Fogel, right. (Nicolas Economou/Nurphoto via Getty Images/Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Fogel was detained at the Russian airport in August 2021 when he traveled to school in Moscow. He was sentenced to 14 years behind bars for drug possession, which his family said was medically prescribed marijuana.
Was released and flew to the US earlier this month in exchange This included the return of Alexander Vinnik, a Russian expert in the Crypto currency who faced accusations for the fraud of Bitcoin in the United States.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
