Ex Russia nuke official jailed four years for laundering bribe money
A former director of a Russian nuclear energy firm was sentenced Tuesday to 48 months in federal prison for taking $2 million in bribes to award uranium transportation contracts to an American company.
Judge Theodore Chuang in the federal district of Maryland also ordered Vadim Mikerin to forfeit $2.1 million.
Mikerin, 56, lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He pleaded guilty in August to a money laundering conspiracy.
He was the director of the Pan American Department of JSC Techsnabexport, or Tenex.
Tenex, based in Moscow, is a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation. It acts as the sole supplier and exporter of Russian uranium to nuclear power companies worldwide.
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