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Pol Allingham

Former Russian minister jailed for UK sanctions breaches

Former governor of Sevastopol Dmitrii Ovsiannikov was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court - (PA Archive)

A former governor appointed by Russian president Vladimir Putin in illegally annexed Crimea has been sentenced to 40 months’ imprisonment for circumventing sanctions, in the first case of its kind.

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, once the governor of Sevastopol, was convicted of having tens of thousands of pounds transferred into his newly opened Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) account by his wife, when he knew he was prohibited from doing so.

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