Moscow City Court upholds Artyom Chekalin’s seven-year prison sentence

Moscow City Court has upheld the sentence of Artyom Chekalin, the former husband of blogger Lerchek, in a case involving money transfers to the United Arab Emirates, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. His prison term is seven years.

Moscow’s Gagarinsky District Court convicted Chekalin of unlawful currency transactions using falsified documents.

The district court said the sentence provides for imprisonment in a general-regime penal colony and a fine.