MOSCOW, November 19 (RAPSI) - Russia’s Krasnodar Regional Court found Sergey Tsapok - guilty of mass murder and sentenced him to life in prison in connection with an attack on a farmer’s house that left 12 dead in 2010, RIA Novosti reports from the courtroom.

Tsapok also received a two-year suspended sentence. He will be eligible for a pardon after 25 years. If and when he is released, he will have to answer for the two-year suspended sentence. He was additionally ordered to pay out 700,000 rubles in fines and yet unknown sum to compensate his victims. Earlier it was said that Tsapok's victims demand over 2,4 billion rubles (75 million $).

According to a court statement, Tsapok wanted to find all accomplices thought to have been responsible for his brother Nikolai’s murder and kill them. According to the Investigative Committee, Tsapok thought that farmer Server Ametov organized Nikolai’s murder. As a result, members of the Tsapok’s gang attacked Ametov’s house in November 2010. Twelve people were killed.

Tsapok and his group have been found guilty of other numerous crimes, including grave and exceptionally grave ones.