Washington: Former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov was sentenced by a California court to six years in prison after he deliberately provided his FBI handler with false information that senior management of Ukrainian energy company Burisma had bribed then-US Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, a court document read.
In mid-December, Smirnov, a US and Israeli citizen, pleaded guilty in federal court in Los Angeles after being charged with perjury and tax evasion on $2 million in income between 2020 and 2022.
“The Court adjudged the defendant guilty as charged and convicted and ordered that: Pursuant to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, it is the judgment of the Court that the defendant is hereby committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a term of: 72 months,” the document read.
In addition, Smirnov will have to pay restitution in the amount of $675,502, the document added.
Smirnov will reportedly receive credit for time served since his arrest last February. However, his lawyers had asked for no more than four years in prison, noting the assistance he provided to the US government as an FBI informant for more than a decade.
