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The jail sentences of two former Slovak army officers found guilty of attempting to sell uranium were cut by the Czech Republic's highest court on Wednesday after it accepted that the raw material was low quality. The Brno-based court cut the sentence on Juraj Vagassky from 10 years to eight years and his partner, Peter Moravcik, from eight years to six. "The product was not dangerous in its state and could not have affected health," said the judge, Milada Samalova. Experts said the uranium could not have been used to make nuclear bombs. The two men were arrested by police at a hotel outside Brno, the Czech Republic's second city, in November 2003 after they tried to sell three kilogrammes of uranium for around 600,000 dollars. Vagassky said the Russian mafia had forced him to sell it and that he had brought his friend, Moravcik, along. The two men were originally sentenced by the Brno regional court last year. All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.
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