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Moldova Sentences 3 in Uranium Trafficking Case

RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED May 31, 2012

A Moldovan court has sentenced three people for illegal trafficking of uranium, the Kommersant.md website reported on Friday.

A Russian woman was jailed for three years, and her Moldovan accomplice received a sentence of five years. A third person was fined 15,000 leu ($1,200).

The trio was part of a gang of five detained by Moldovan police in a raid in June last year.

The group had been trying to sell about one kilogram of uranium-235 for $38 million. The radioactive material can be used to make nuclear weapons.

It was not known to what level the uranium was enriched.

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