A Moldovan oligarch and ex-opposition leader gets a 19-year sentence in a $1 billion bank fraud case

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — A court in Moldova sentenced a former opposition leader and one of the nation’s richest men on Wednesday to 19 years in a fraud case that saw a billion dollars stolen from several of the impoverished European country’s banks more than a decade ago. The oligarch, Vladimir Pl...

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