MOSCOW, June 16 (RAPSI) – A criminal case over a metro accident in Moscow that left 24 dead has been forwarded to the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow, spokesperson for the Prosecutor General’s Office Marina Gridneva told journalists on Tuesday.

Three metro cars derailed on a section between the Park Pobedy and Slavyansky Bulvar metro stations in the west on the city during peak commute hours on July 15, 2014.

Anatoly Kruglov, Deputy Chief of a subcontractor of the repair project, Alexei Trofimov, a senior executive in the Metro's repair department, the enterprise's track supervisor Valery Bashkatov and his assistant Yury Gordov have been charged with violation of traffic safety rules and underground operating rules that entailed death of two and more people through negligence.

They could face up to seven years in prison, if convicted.