United States v. Lazarenko
2004 United States money laundering trial for a former Ukrainian Prime Minister / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United States v. Lazarenko, 476 F.3d 642, was a landmark decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in which it was ruled that former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko had committed money laundering, wire fraud, and interstate transportation of stolen property by using American banks, along with banks in several other countries, to illegally launder money plundered from Ukrainian businesses and the government during his tenure as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and later as Prime Minister of Ukraine. One of the largest money laundering trials in American history, it was notably the first case in which a foreign head of state or government had been convicted in the United States for money laundering[2] and the second case in which a foreign head of state or government had been convicted of a crime in the United States, following United States v. Noriega. The case was closely followed in Ukraine, with widespread support for Lazarenko's conviction.
United States v. Lazarenko | |
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Court | United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Full case name | United States of America vs. Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko |
Started | 2000 |
Decided | June 3, 2004 (2004-06-03) |
Citation(s) | 476 F.3d 642 |
Court membership | |
Judge sitting | Martin Jenkins[1] |