Former U.N. Official Gets Four Years for Money Laundering.

The article discusses the money laundering case U.S. v. Kuznetsov decided by the District Court for the Southern District of New York on October 19, 2007. Judge Deborah A. Batts has sentenced former United Nations (UN) official Vladimir Kuznetsov to four years in prison on money laundering charges related to kickbacks he received on UN contracts. The judge disagreed with the argument by Kuznetsov that he was entitled to diplomatic immunity because he was an agent of the Russian government.