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Former Putin-appointed governor guilty of breaching UK sanctions

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Dmitrii Ovsiannikov found guilty of six out of seven counts of circumventing sanctions.

He received more than 75,000 from his wife and a Mercedes Benz SUV from his brother.

Putin appointed him as acting governor of Sevastopol, Crimea , in 2014 .

EU and UK imposed financial sanctions on him as a result of his senior job in illegally annexed Crimea .

He challenged EU sanctions and they were lifted just five days after he arrived in the UK .

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