There was one foreigner who got a sentence of multiple years but i don't think it was 12. He was a Chinese national who was smuggling Chinese people into the country, which i have heard is common and normally ignored because they are considered cheap labor, but in this particular case one of the people this man smuggled in spread covid.
The smuggled person didn't get any time as far as I know, but the smuggler did. Not really sure how that worked out I just remember people talking about it. I should look that up actually.