Word: okhotin
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...Moscow District Court judge found Andrew J. Okhotin guilty of smuggling yesterday, but sentenced him to only six months of conditional punishment, or "uslovno...
...verdict means that Okhotin is free to return to the U.S., but on the condition that if he commits another crime in Russia within the next six months, he would have to serve the time for that crime plus six months for the smuggling conviction. The charge against Okhotin carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, but prosecutors had requested the lesser punishment...
...judge said the Russian government will keep the money--which according to Okhotin was donated by Baptists from his father's San Diego ministry and meant for destitute Christians in Russia--because it was illegally brought across the border...
...government has to control all the money that's brought into the country," Judge Igor Yakovlev said in his verdict. "Because Okhotin was trying to hide the money, his actions were against the economic interests of the Russian Federation...
...Okhotin sees his case in very simple moral terms, despite the complexity of the Russian government’s investigation and prosecution...