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Russian Former UN Official Found Guilty
A jury in the Southern Federal District Court of New York has found Vladimir Kuznetsov guilt of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The jurors deliberated less than an hour before announcing their finding on Wednesday. Judge Deborah Batts will pass sentence in the case on June 25.
Kuznetsov, a former chairman of the UN Committee for Administrative and Budgetary Issues, was arrested on September 1, 2005, after the UN general secretary waived his immunity. Kuznetsov is accused of setting up an offshore company in 2000 to hide illegal income that he received from Alexander Yakovlev, who then worked in the UN procurement office. Yakovlev has confessed to receiving bribes from companies seeking lucrative UN contracts.
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