Viktor Bout
© Photo from personal archive of the wife of Viktor bout Alla Bout/TASS
NEW YORK, July 21. /Offset. TASS Alexey Kachalin/. The information that the sentence of Viktor bout to the United States increased the punishment for violation of prison rules during a telephone conversation with the journalist of the Russian TV channel RT, no. Disciplinary proceedings on this matter is not completed. About it the correspondent of TASS said Tuesday the lawyer of the Russian citizen Alexei Tarasov.
The trial is not completed
Tarasov said that any development on the disciplinary proceedings initiated against the Russians, “at the moment”.
The lawyer confirmed that the case is still under consideration. “The way it is. Yes,” Tarasov said, adding that accordingly the decision on punishment or nakazanii Victor bout was not taken. “While it [the decision] is made,” he said.
Mentioned talking on the phone with the purpose of the interview was approved by the administration of prison Marion (Illinois) and took place on 5 may. As explained by the lawyer, an employee of RT, contacted at the phone booth during the conversation, handed the phone to his colleague, not included in the list of persons who U.S. authorities allowed to communicate with the prisoner by the Russians. In Marion, this equates to a disciplinary violation for which the booth can be punished by increasing the term of imprisonment or transfer to the regime of detention in prison.
Kombucha nothing to do with it
The lawyer of Russians has not confirmed the publication of a number of Russian mass media about the recent increase in sentence bout to the United States for another violation of the regime of deprivation of liberty – making of alcohol beverage (Kombucha). In an interview with TASS earlier Tarasov reminded about this story that happened not now, but in the fall of 2015.