British Citizen Detained in Georgia Over Restricted Painkillers Reaches Plea Deal, Pays Fine, Set to Be Expelled

Matthew Roy Desmond, a British citizen and war veteran who had been detained in Georgia for nearly three months over painkillers classified under Georgian law as illegal drugs and psychotropic substances, reached a plea deal under which he paid a GEL 100,000 (about $38,000) fine and will be expelled from the country and banned from …