United States v Lazarenko: The Trial and Conviction of Two Former Prime Ministers of Ukraine
In: The University of Chicago Legal Forum, Jg. 2012 (2012), S. 41
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Introduction In August of 2006, Pavlo Ivanovych Lazarenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, stood before a district court judge in the United States to receive sentence. Lazarenko stood convicted of corrupt acts, including money laundering, wire fraud, and transportation of stolen property. 1 Lazarenko certainly does not stand alone as a convicted corrupt politician. 2 Lazarenko's conviction, however, was based in part on violations of the laws of his home country, which makes his conviction unique; his was the first conviction by a US court of a foreign leader not based entirely on violation of US law. 3 In October of 2011, Yuliya Volodymyrvina Tymoshenko, Lazarenko's one-time colleague and also a former Prime Minister of Ukraine, sat before a judge in Ukraine. She too awaited sentence, having been convicted of criminal abuse of power. Tymoshenko was not the first political figure convicted of corruption in Ukraine, but the blatantly political nature of her trial renders her conviction of special interest. The particulars of these cases are provocative. These leaders inflicted a tremendous amount of damage on Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. They subverted the transition of a nation emerging from years of occupation as part of the Soviet Union. Lazarenko, in particular, manipulated banks and financial institutions in a number of countries. His conviction constitutes justice. Even more interesting than the particulars of their actions, although not as sensational, are the insights that their trials provide into the nature of corruption. ...
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United States v Lazarenko: The Trial and Conviction of Two Former Prime Ministers of Ukraine
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Nichols, Philip M. |
Zeitschrift: | The University of Chicago Legal Forum, Jg. 2012 (2012), S. 41 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2012 |
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