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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison for money laundering, wire fraud and extortion.
The sentence, which also included $10 million in fines, was half of the maximum sought by prosecutors, who said Lazarenko misused his office in the former Soviet republic to get rich through business schemes.
Lazarenko, 53, was the first former head of government to be tried in the United States since Manuel Noriega of Panama.
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