New York based anti-money laundering and organised crime expert, attorney Emanuel Zeltser, imprisoned upon arrival in Belarus, has now incredibly been charged with narcotics offences by a government that the US says is the last dictatorship in Europe. Zeltser was originally charged with the use of false documents when he was detained on 12 March, as he arrived for meetings with clients politically opposed to the current regime. The drug charges seem to involve diabetes medications that he carried with him; Belarusian authorities now say that they were not for such an ailment, and are therefore, illegal. Obviously, the charges are bogus. US diplomats have been protesting the arrest for several months, but the relationship between the two countries is poor, so he has not been released.

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