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Convicted Diplomat Returns from U.S.
Former Russian diplomat Vladimir Kuznetsov left the United States Tuesday evening after being remanded into the custody of Russian authorities by the U.S. Department of Justice, RIA Novosti reported. He was convicted in the U.S. of money laundering. He is on Aeroflot flight 316 from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, which will arrive in Moscow today at about 3:00 p.m.
Kuznetsov sentenced in October 2007 to four years and three months in prison for accepting a loan of $300,000 from Russian U.N. employee Alexander Yakovlev. An investigation showed that Kuznetsov knew that Yakovlev had obtained the money illegally through the Oil for Food Program. Kuznetsov asked to be extradited to Russia, and the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York approved his request.
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