Former Putin-appointed governor guilty of breaching UK sanctions

A former Russian government minister – who was once a governor in illegally annexed Crimea – has been found guilty of breaching UK sanctions in the first case of its kind.
Dmitrii Ovsiannikov was accused of deliberately avoiding sanctions by receiving more than £75,000 from his wife Ekaterina Ovsiannikova and a new Mercedes Benz SUV from his brother Alexei Owsjanikow.
Ovsiannikov, who has a British passport, was found guilty of six out of seven counts of circumventing sanctions. The jury failed to reach a verdict on the final charge.
The case is the first prosecution in the UK regarding a breach of sanctions under the Russia Sanctions Regulations, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Two years after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, President Vladimir Putin appointed Ovsiannikov as acting governor of the “strategically significant” city of Sevastopol in Crimea, the jury were told.

Source: BBC