Paul Nicholas Whelan is an Canadian-born American resident corporate security director. He received a bad conduct discharge from the Marine Corps. He was reported to have worked as a police officer. He was arrested in Russia on December 28, 2018, and accused of spying. On June 15, 2020, he received a 16-year prison sentence with the possibility of time in a labor camp. Read More
The Russian Embassy in Washington responded to the call of the US to release Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed from Russian prisons by reminding them that both Americans were arrested for committing serious crimes, unlike Russians, who are often detained a ...