A Moscow court has sentenced former top police general Sergei Umnov and several high-ranking Interior Ministry officials to lengthy prison terms for running a multimillion-ruble bribery scheme. He was sentenced to 12 years in a strict-regime penal colony, stripped of his rank of police lieutenant general, and banned from holding government posts for ten years. Abakumov was additionally fined 25 million rubles, while Semenov received a 10 million ruble fine. Smirnova, convicted of giving bribes, was fined 2 million rubles. Lavish Spending of Illegal FundsOver six years, the fund collected around 65 million rubles.