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Brazilian athlete caught with cannabis at Estonia-Russia border receives harsh sentence

From Delfi · () Lithuanian

Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Brazilian former national-team player Letícia Villair Pais received a five-year-and-two-month prison sentence in Russia for drug smuggling and possession.
  • Authorities detained her while she tried to travel from the Leningrad region into Estonia and found 6.13 grams of cannabis in her bag.
  • Pais admitted guilt and said she bought the cannabis in Europe to address mental-health problems after a divorce and career difficulties; her lawyer expects her to serve the rest of the sentence in Brazil.

Letícia Villair Pais, a former Brazil national-team player, has received a five-year-and-two-month prison sentence in Russia after authorities found 6.13 grams of cannabis in her bag at the border with Estonia.

According to the Ukrainian outlet Oboz, Pais was detained while attempting to travel from Russia’s Leningrad region into Estonia. She was found guilty this summer of drug smuggling and illegal possession.

Pais admitted her guilt in court. She said she had bought the cannabis in Europe to help with mental-health problems that followed her divorce and difficulties in her sporting career. She also told the court that doctors had prescribed her preparations containing cannabis.

Because such products are legal in some countries, Pais said she believed the same rules applied in Russia. Her lawyer, Maria Sergeyeva, said she expected Pais to be allowed to return to Brazil and serve the remainder of her sentence there.

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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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