(Reuters) -A Moldovan court on Tuesday sentenced pro-Kremlin regional leader Evgenia Gutul to seven years in jail for channelling money from Russia to finance a political party.
Gutul denied wrongdoing.
According to prosecutors, Gutul systematically channelled undeclared funds into Moldova from 2019-2022 to finance the now-banned pro-Moscow "Shor" party set up by Ilan Shor, an exiled pro-Russian businessman convicted of fraud in Moldova.
(Reporting by Alexander Tanas, writing by Yuliia Dysa; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
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