Vladimir_Kuznetsov_(diplomat)
Vladimir Kuznetsov (diplomat)
Russian diplomat
Vladimir Kuznetsov (born 1957[1]) is a former Russian diplomat who was the head of the United Nations Committee for Administrative and Budgetary Issues.[2][3] He also served as a diplomat for the Russian Mission.
Kuznetsov was indicted in September 2005 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1:05-cr-00916-DAB-1) following a guilty plea and immediate cooperation by the former UN official Alexander Yakovlev, who at the time was facing 20 years in jail on a conspiracy to commit money laundering charge. Yakovlev's lawyer, Arkady Bukh, stated that he expected Mr. Yakovlev's sentence to be significantly reduced in exchange for Yakovlev's testimony at trial.[4] In March 2007, Kuznetsov was convicted in New York City of one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.[3][5] In October of the same year, he was sentenced to imprisonment for 51 months and a fine of $73,000.[6]