Russian Orthodox metropolitan decorated by Putin suspected of drug possession in Czechia

Police in the city of Karlovy Vary, Czechia, stopped a car on 24 May carrying Russian Metropolitan Hilarion, who heads the Czech branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, and found four small containers with a white substance inside.

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Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Hilarion. Photo: TASS

Source: Hilarion's Telegram channel, in a statement released on behalf of his defence team, as reported by European Pravda

Details: The statement said Metropolitan Hilarion "currently has no opportunity to address the channel's subscribers personally" so the information is being released by the defence.