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When Andrew Okhotin touched down in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo II Airport on March 29 carrying $48,000 in American cash in his suitcase, he thought his job would be simple. Okhotin brought with him a customs declaration and a letter explaining the money’s purpose: he had come to Russia in order to distribute the donations his father’s San Diego-based Russian Evangelistic Ministries had raised for hard-up Christians in the former Soviet Union...
...instead of a simple charitable mission, Okhotin says he found himself entangled in a web of lies and corrupt prosecution. More than three months later, he is still forbidden to leave Russia—and his trial on charges of smuggling has just been announced for August...