MOSCOW, August 18 (RAPSI) – Three defendants in a case over selling fake coronavirus short-term tests on Tuesday received one-year suspended terms each, according to the ruling of Moscow’s Savelovsky District Court.

Maxim Lavrov, Elvira Kopylova and Yekaterina Lysenkova were found guilty of large-scale fraud attempt.

The defendants pleaded guilty.

The court found that this spring the defendants took advantage of the epidemiological situation and public alarm and organized online sales of fake coronavirus short-term tests. According to case papers, the defendants were arrested overnight to April 3 during the attempt to sell 350 tests worth 770,000 rubles ($10,500).