Russian prosecutors seek prison sentence for NBA player Greiner

Russian prosecutors on Thursday demanded that NBA player Britney Greiner be jailed for nine and a half years for drug smuggling, an AFP correspondent reported.

"I am asking the court to convict and sentence Greiner to nine years and six months in prison," Prosecutor Nikolai Vlasenko said, and to pay a fine of one million rubles ($16,590).

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