Resident of the United States sentenced for money laundering in the supply of uranium from Russia

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New Jersey resident Boris Rubizhevsky, who was in the same case with Russian Vadim Mikerin, who traded low-enriched Russian uranium in the United States, was sentenced in the federal court of Maryland to one year and one day’s imprisonment, three years of public supervision and a fine of $ 26,5 thousand writes Air force.

67-year-old Rubizhevsky pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money in early June 2015, but the Maryland judge Theodore Chuang sentenced him only now.

The length of the sentence (year and day) sounds strange, but it is not accidental: an extra day means that, according to the law, the sentence is likely to be automatically reduced for the minimum approximate behavior on the 54 of the day, that is, it will be almost not a year, but about 10 months .

If the judge had sentenced Rubizhevsky to exactly one year, then the convicted person would have served the sentence in full.

The fact is that one extra day of imprisonment transferred his crime to the category felony. This is an offense punishable by "more than a year."

If a crime is relied on for a year or less, it is classified in the USA misdemeanor. Convicted for an offense in this category is not automatically shortened.

Mikerin from 2004 to 2010 was the director of the American department of Techsnabexport, which is part of the Rosatom system, and from October 2010 to October 2014 - the president of its American "daughter" - the corporation Tenam.

He was accused of receiving kickbacks from American firms that wanted to enter into lucrative contracts with Techsnabexport.

Rubizhevsky was accused of intermediary in the transfer of kickbacks from an American company, which is encrypted in the indictment as “Cylinder One Corporation.” In other court documents and media reports it stands for the company Worthington Cylinderslocated in the city of Bremen in Ohio.

Rubizhevsky concluded a fictitious contract with her on behalf of his company Nexgenin which he was the only employee. Nexgen, in turn, entered into a fictitious consultancy contract with a company located in the United Kingdom.

Not the only thing?

As stated in the indictment, Rubizhevsky received checks from Worthington Cylinders and deposited them in his account Nexgen.

Mikerin, in turn, could use Rubizhevsky’s bank account in Switzerland. Rubizhevsky also transferred money to Mikerin in Latvia.

Mikerin confessed to the same crime and was sentenced to 4 years in prison. His term in 4 is longer than Rubizhevsky’s term, since Mikerin is considered the head of a criminal conspiracy.

It is also possible that Rubizhevsky helped the investigation. Otherwise it is difficult to explain the abundance of classified documents in his criminal case.

It seems, it was not the only one.

In April, a federal court in Brooklyn opened a case against four people on charges of securities fraud. Among them is Boris Rubizhevsky, a man of the same age and with the same address as Mikerin’s accomplice.

Figures of the Brooklyn case by manipulation allegedly artificially inflated the stock quotes of their company Biocube, which developed an indicator tube to detect traces of marijuana in the exhale, and then quickly sold them and washed the proceeds to cover it from taxes.

Shares that originally cost 7 cents a piece, as a result of fraudulent stunts, went up to 20 cents.

In this case, Rubizhevsky faces up to 20 years in prison. But the same amount threatened him in the case of Maryland, and he got off a year and one day.

Names of Mikerin and Rubizhevsky again flashed now in the media in connection with reports that Minister of Justice Jeff Sessions is considering the appointment of another special prosecutor to investigate cases of interest to Republicans.

In particular, this refers to the case of the sale of Russia by the administration of Barack Obama to one-fifth of US uranium reserves.

Conservative writers remarkably note that the then federal prosecutor of Maryland Rod Rosenstein supervised the affairs of Mikerin and Rubizhevsky. He now serves as Deputy Minister of Justice and personally appointed Special Prosecutor Robert Muller, who is investigating Russia's interference in the US 2016 election of the year.

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