Moldova sentences 3 in uranium trafficking case

A Moldovan court has sentenced three people for illegal trafficking of uranium, the Kommersant.md website reported on Friday. A Russian woman was jailed for three years, and her Moldovan accomplice received a sentence of five years. A third person was fined 15,000 leu ($1,200). The trio was part of a gang of five detained by Moldovan police in a raid in June last year. The group had been trying to sell about one kilogram of uranium-235 for $38 million. The radioactive material can be used to make nuclear weapons. It was not known to what level the uranium was enriched.