Israel asks Putin to pardon U.S.-Israeli jailed for Moscow airport transit drugs by DanWilliams
JERUSALEM - Israel asked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday to pardon a U.S.-Israeli woman given a 7-1/2 year jail sentence for drugs found in her luggage as she transited through a Moscow airport.
In a letter to Putin, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Issachar, 25, had “made a grave mistake and has admitted her crime”, and asked the Russian leader for his “personal intervention to grant her an extraordinary pardon”. Putin would be informed about the letter and consider the request once the Kremlin receives it via diplomatic channels, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters.
Israeli and U.S. officials would not disclose further details of Burkov’s suspected crimes and his lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
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