MOSCOW, April 6 (Reuters) - A Russian court on Monday sentenced the former governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, to 14 years in prison for corruption, state news agency RIA reported.
A series of former officials in Kursk region, a border region parts of which were seized by Ukraine for several months in 2024, have been prosecuted as part of an investigation into the embezzlement of funds intended for frontier defences.
(Reporting by Reuters, Writing by Felix Light; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
