Yuri Lutsenko Ukraine’s former interior minister has had his appeal against a prison sentence rejected.
Like his once close ally the jailed ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Lutsenko is serving a four year term for abuse of power and embezzlement. He is due to be released in 2014. Both politicians are opponents of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Journalists were not let into the courtroom, where Lutsenko, who denies any wrongdoing, sat inside a glass-and-plastic box.
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