A Moscow court sentenced 12 members of a Chechen gang to five to 10 years in prison for the kidnapping of a 12-year-old Israeli boy in 1999. Adi Sharon, son of an Israeli businessman, was held for more than nine months in a small, dark pit after his abduction from Moscow.
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