Russian former economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev, who was charged with accepting a bribe, arrives for a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, December 15, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former Russian economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev was found guilty of soliciting a $2 million bribe from Rosneft chief executive Igor Sechin and sentenced to eight years in jail on Friday.
The high-profile court case shone a rare light on infighting among the Russian elite ahead of a presidential election in March which incumbent Vladimir Putin is expected to win and was widely seen as a test of how powerful Sechin, a Putin ally, is.
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