Ex-Ukrainian PM guilty of extortion

A jury in San Francisco tonight found former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko guilty of money laundering and extortion charges.

Ex-Ukrainian PM guilty of extortion
Thu, 03 Jun, 2004 - 20:54

A jury in San Francisco tonight found former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko guilty of money laundering and extortion charges.

Prosecutors argued he had misused his high office in the former Soviet republic to get rich through a series of business schemes in his homeland.

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