Russian police authorities put the better half of opposition figure Leonid Gozman underhouse arrest on allegations of trafficking cultural items from Russia to Italy, media reported Thursday.The independent paper Novaya Gazeta, pointing out a court indictment, reported that the $ cultural goods $ noted by authorities include $ kitchen and family utensils $ inherited by the Gozman family and taken by Russian border guards.
Marina Yegorova, 72, faces up to seven years in prison if condemned of trafficking as part of an $ organized criminal group, $ according to the Kremlin-funded broadcaster RT.Novaya Gazeta reported that the court indictment lists Gozman, Yegorova and the driver who brought her to the Russian border crossing as members of that $ organized criminal group.
$ A screenshot of Yegorova $ s case shows that a Moscow court ruled to place her under house arrest on Oct.
4, and the ruling participated in force on Oct.
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Gozman, 73, has actually not talked about his wife $ s case, butannounced two days after the court ruling that he was suspending political and media activity $ due to individual circumstances.
$ Novaya Gazeta claimed Gozman, who has a home in Italy, made that choice since $ his spouse was taken hostage in Russia.
$ In July, a Moscow court sentenced Gozman to 8 and a half years in jail in absentia for criticizing Russia $ s intrusion of Ukraine.
He denied the charges.Russia labeled Gozman a $ foreign agent $ in 2022 and detained him for presumably stopping working to notify the authorities about his double Russian-Israeli citizenship.
He was jailed for two successive 15-day terms over article where he compared the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany.Gozman left Russia in September 2022.