A former Ukrainian prime minister is likely to be sentenced to at least 10 years in U.S. prison even though a federal judge threw out half the charges against him, the case's former prosecutor said.
After a complex trial last year, a San Francisco jury convicted Pavlo Lazarenko, who became a multimillionaire while in power in Ukraine during the 1990s, of extortion and laundering money through California banks.
U.S. District Court Judge Martin Jenkins ruled late on Friday that there was not enough evidence to sustain convictions on 15 out of 29 counts against Lazarenko, Ukraine's prime minister from 1996 to 1997.
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