Vladimir Kuznetsov (born 1957[1]) is a former Russian diplomat who was the head of the United Nations Committee for Administrative and Budgetary Issues.
Kuznetsov was indicted in September 2005 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1:05-cr-00916-DAB-1) following a guilty plea and immediate cooperation by the former UN official Alexander Yakovlev, who at the time was facing 20 years in jail on a conspiracy to commit money laundering charge.
[4] In March 2007, Kuznetsov was convicted in New York City of one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
[6] Kuznetsov was elected to a three-year term on the budget advisory committee in January 2003.
The prestigious panel’s 15 members, including a representative of the United States, then elected him as its chairman.