| Estonian With Rhino
Tranquilizer Gets 10 Years In SDNY After
Guilty Plea
By Matthew
Russell Lee, @SDNYLIVE
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 5 – Three residents of
Estonia just extradited to the
United States on drug charges
were arraigned on May 9, 2019
in the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate's
courtroom,
presided over
for the week
by Magistrate
Judge
Ona Wang.
According
to the U.S.
Attorney,
"Estonian
residents
JEVGENI BOKOV,
VIKTOR
LITVINTSUK,
AMID
MAGERRAMOV,
NIKOLAI
NIFTALIJEV,
and VITALI
VORONJUK have
been charged
in an
Indictment
filed in
Manhattan
federal court
with narcotics
trafficking
and money
laundering
offenses,
including
conspiracy to
import
carfentanil
and fentanyl
into the
United
States."
According to
the Complaint,
at Paragraph
26a,
"carfentenil
is used
commercially
to tranquilize
large animals
such as
elephants and
rhinoceroses."
Three
of the men
appeared in
shackles in
the Mag Court
on May 9, 2019
with Inner
City Press the
only media
present. Each
had a CJA
lawyer (one
was involved
in a Nine Trey
Gangsta Bloods
guilty plea
allocution
earlier in the
day, here);
they shared an
interpreter.
Viktor
Litvintsuk,
represented by
the Federal
Defenders, had
asked SDNY
Judge J. Paul
Oetken for an
adjourment
until May 17
in order to
attempt to
work out a
disposition.
Now on November 5, 2021, "AMID
MAGERRAMOV was sentenced to 10 years in prison
for conspiring to import massive quantities of
carfentanil and fentanyl into the United
States. MAGERRAMOV pled guilty on May 4,
2021, before U.S. District Judge J. Paul
Oetken, who imposed today’s sentence."
The case is US v. Magerramov, 18-cr-678
(Oetken)
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