Russia’s Honored Artist confessed in court in the drug case 08:33

Actress Ramili Iskander (real name Khisamova) pleaded guilty to charges of attempted significant and particularly large-scale drug trafficking by a group of individuals. This was reported by TASS.

“I regret it very much,” the Honored Artist of Russia added at the meeting.

The trial took place in the Pervomaisky District Court of the city of Penza. Before that, on March 6, the prosecutor’s office approved the charges against the artist: the artist, together with two accomplices, is charged under the fifth part of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The men face Khisamova’s sentence of up to 25 years to life in prison.

The investigation concluded that Ramilya Khisamova agreed with an acquaintance from Penza at the beginning of 2023 to create an online store selling banned substances.

Then Khisamova bought 2.6 kg of mephedrone in bulk from unidentified persons, took it from the cache and gave some of it to a friend for transportation to Penza. The rest of the drugs remained with the actor. On February 15, 300 grams of mephedrone were offered for sale in an online pharmacy.

Khisamova and her accomplices Yaroslav Shalev and Vladimir Kholkin were detained at the end of the year. During the search, amphetamine, cocaine and 1,966 grams of mephedrone were seized on the actor.

Ramilya Iskander played the wife of Ivan the Terrible in Pavel Lungin’s film “The Tsar”, Mila Kunis voiced Scarlett Johansson, the heroine of the film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, as well as Marion Cotillard.

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