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...walking with his head down like he was in a hurry to cross the border...He was evasively answering questions with questions," Yakovlev said of Okhotin's behavior at the airport. "The court doesn't trust the testimony of the defendant...
...looks like the legal system is covering up for the customs," Okhotin said, referring to his allegation that customs officers tried to bribe him at the airport. "The only problem with that is what about the question of getting a just outcome...
MOSCOW—More than four months after police seized him in a Moscow airport with $48,000 in American cash in his bags, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) student Andrew Okhotin saw his day in court Wednesday, but the four-hour hearing ended without any verdict on the smuggling charge levelled against...
...first time in the trial, the lawyers also introduced Okhotin's claim that customs officials offered to release him in return for a bribe after stopping him at the airport...
Okhotin has been prohibited from leaving Russia since he was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo II airport on March 29, with $48,000 in cash in a backpack he was carrying. Though he had a form declaring the money—which Okhotin has said was charitable collections intended for destitute Christians in his birth country—Okhotin walked down the airport’s green “nothing to declare” corridor. Okhotin’s lawyer argued at his trial last week that he had made an innocent mistake...