Vadim Gusev is the owner of Slavonic Corps Ltd, a

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based in

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. He once worked for RusCorps. The FSB interrogated and ultimately charged Gusev with a violation of Article 359 of the

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, over his role in Syrian civil war. Gusev was ultimately jailed in October 2014. He faced up to eight years imprisonment but received a three-year sentence. Regular squad members were reportedly unpaid and faced no prosecution in Russia.

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