Ex-Russian Governor Faces UK Trial for Sanctions Violation
Dmitrii Ovsiannikov in 2019.
Photographer: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images
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A sanctioned former Russian governor of a strategically important port city in Crimea is standing trial in London for flouting the financial restrictions.
Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, the Governor of Sevastopol between 2016 and 2019, along with is wife and brother are accused of buying a Mercedes Benz and paying thousands of pounds for his children’s private school fee while under sanctions, prosecutors said on the first day of the trial.