The World - News from Dec. 14, 1988

The Soviet state prosecutor demanded a 15-year sentence for Yuri M. Churbanov, son-in-law of the late Kremlin leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, at his trial in Moscow on corruption charges. In his summing-up, prosecutor Alexander Sboyev said that Churbanov, who was first deputy minister of the Interior under Brezhnev, should serve five years in jail and 10 years in a labor camp “for his especially serious crimes.” Churbanov, 52, who is married to Brezhnev’s daughter Galina, is accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. The judge is not expected to hand down a sentence in the three-month trial for at least two weeks.