By IANS/RIA Novosti,
Moscow : A Russian court has sent a federal security official to two years in jail in a $1.5 million fraud case.
The interior ministry said Friday a Moscow district court has sentenced former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer Andrei Ponkin to two years in prison in the fraud case.
Ponkin and his accomplice Telman Aleskerov, posing as finance ministry officials, offered to help get embezzlement charges against an unnamed former bank official dropped for $1.5 million last November.
They were detained after accepting an advance payment of 1.5 million rubles (about $50,000).
Both men admitted their guilt. Aleskerov was also sentenced to two years in prison.
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