Ex-Russian minister sentenced to 40 months in jail for UK sanctions breaches

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, governor of Sevastapol in illegally-annexed Crimea from 2017, has been sentenced to 40 months in jail after he was found guilty in a London court of breaching UK sanctions and money laundering. His is the first conviction under the Russian Regulations 2019.

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, governor of Sevastapol in illegally-annexed Crimea from 2017, has been sentenced to 40 months in jail after he was found guilty in a London court of breaching UK sanctions and money laundering. His is the first conviction under the Russian Regulations 2019.