Sentence 1: Prior to his arrival in Sweden in 2002 , Mišović was in Serbia , where he was involved in organized crime , and left the country to escape arrest .
Sentence 2: Prior to his arrival in Serbia in 2002 , Mišović was in Sweden where he was involved in organized crime , he left the country to avoid arrest .
Question: Do Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 express the same meaning? Yes or No?