WASHINGTON (AP) — The arrest of a Michigan corporate security executive on espionage allegations in Russia seemed to his family like a horrible mistake, a misunderstanding that could be quickly resolved with help from the U.S. government. But it hasn’t worked out that way. Six months later, and despite extensive U.S. efforts on his behalf, Paul Whelan is entangled in a Russian legal system so opaque that the evidence against him remains unknown. His family has had only limited contact with him and no idea when, or if, he will be released. “Without any information, we can’t have any certainty that anything is happening at all,” said his brother David Whelan in an interview with The Associated Press. The Whelan case, which at first seemed to many like a possible Moscow tit-for-tat response to the arrest of Russian gun-rights activist Maria Butina in the United States, has become a lesson on the limits of American power to help a U.S. citizen charged with a serious crime in a hostile country. The 49-year-old man faces a sentence of 20 years on a charge of espionage. Whelan’s case has received extensive media coverage since his Dec. 28 arrest at a Moscow hotel…. Read full this story
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