Pavlo lazarenko released on recognizance
Sevyarynets is being held in the Minsk city prison, while Vaskovich was released on his own recognizance.
Pavel Lazarenko.!
The charges against Lazarenko date back to the mid-1990s |
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko has been sentenced to nine years in prison by a US court for extortion, money-laundering through American banks and fraud.
Lazarenko, who was also ordered to pay a $10m (£5.29m) fine, was convicted in June 2004. He is appealing against his conviction.
The 53-year-old, who was prime minister from 1996-97, maintained that his fortune had been amassed through legal business operations.
Lazarenko lazarev lazarevic lazaro lazaroni lazarus la-z-boy lazenby lazer pavlo pavlodar pavlos pavlou pavlov pavlova pavlovic pavlovich pavlovna.He was convicted on 29 counts though a judge later threw out 15 of them for want of evidence.
Initially, US prosecutors had accused Lazarenko of laundering through American banks $114m (£60m) stolen while in office in Ukraine.
That figure appears in a 2004 Transparency International Global Corruption report, in which the anti-graft agency ranked Lazarenko eighth out of the world's 10 most corrupt politicians in the previous two decades.
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