KALININGRAD, June 13 (RIA Novosti) - A former deputy governor of the Kaliningrad Region, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for receiving bribes, a regional court official said.
"Savva Leonov has been sentenced to seven years in a high-security prison, and fined 100,000 rubles ($3,692)," Court press secretary Yelena Manachina said.
The Kaliningrad Regional Court found the former official guilty on counts of receiving bribes, and "legalizing money or other property acquired illegally."
Leonov, who headed the regional auction committee, was arrested on suspicion of receiving a $150,000 bribe in August 2004. In exchange for the cash, handed to him in a box under a cake by a businessman, Leonov postponed an auction to sell quotas for imported cars.
