A court in Ho Chi Minh City in Friday, sentenced a Russian woman to life imprisonment for smuggling cocaine through Vietnam, sparing her capital punishment as her lawyer defended that she was just a victim.
Maria Aleksandr Dapirka, 32, narrowly escaped death as proposed by prosecutors after her lawyer successfully argued that she was duped into being a drug mule for an international ring.
According to the indictment, Dapirka was working as a furniture designer in Thailand when she met a Nigerian man named Mathew Chili, or Nick, around March 2014 and agreed to go traveling with him.
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