A high-placed government official and three accomplices were sentenced to up to ten years in prison for their involvement in a scam that had dozens of people forking over money for bogus postions in the Russian government. Yevegeniy Reznikov, the leader of the crime ring, was charging people as much as $1 million (24 million rubles) to be "president of the Maryi El republic" in the Urals, for example, or "vice president of the republic of Kalmykia." Surprisingly, as many as 33 people bought into Reznikov's scam - and actually believed that a government seat was for sale. Altogether, the victims were defrauded of some $3.4 million (81 million rubles). Ending a case that began in 2005, the Moscow District Military Court on Monday sentenced Reznikov, a colonel in the Emergencies Ministry, to ten years in prison for "selling...
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