Word: okhotin
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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According to Okhotin, they also rang up the secret service...
Meanwhile, Okhotin alleges, customs officials proceeded to make the first of several explicit offers for him to bribe them with a portion of the money he had brought for impoverished protestant churches. After asking for $10,000 initially, Okhotin says—upon the delivery of which he says they promised he would be released—an official knocked the offer down...
...Okhotin says he suspects that his treatment was based on more than simple greed on the part of the Russian officials...
...this point, Okhotin says, the authorities stepped up their threats of criminal prosecution, holding a five-year sentence over his head...
Stephan P. Sonnenberg, a Harvard Human Rights Project Fellow and a student at Harvard Law School who has worked closely with Okhotin in the last months, says that once Okhotin turned down their bribe solicitations, the officials were bound to ratchet up the legal pressure...