Edmond Pope

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253 days into his custody, Pope was pardoned by the newly elected Russian President Vladimir Putin as US government claimed that Pope had a rare form of bone cancer.
Edmond Pope was sentenced to 20 years in prison for buying-up and smuggling classified military equipment out of the country as scrap metal.
In an interview with CNN, Pope spoke of a plot by unspecified people in the US, as well as the KGB and the Russian mafia, as a part of which Pope was being slowly poisoned in the Lefortovo Prison.