Former prime minister jailed for extortion
Former Ukrainian prime miister Pavlo Lazarenko was jailed for nine years and fined £5.3m (€7.8m) for money laundering, wire fraud and extortion.
The sentence was half of the maximum sought by US prosecutors, who said the 53-year-old former premier misused his high office in the ex-Soviet republic to get rich through a series of business schemes.
