MOSCOW, March 28 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – The Moscow Region Court has sentenced Robert Bagayev, a member of a gang that allegedly killed over 40 people, to 22 years in prison and fined him 500,000 rubles ($7,300), the court’s press service told RAPSI on Monday.

Bagayev was found guilty of participation in a criminal group, gangsterism, attempted murder, killings, illegal deprivation of freedom and ammunition trafficking.

Russian investigators claim that Bagayev joined the gang in 2006 and later took part in killings and kidnapping. He got a monthly salary of $1,000.

According to investigators, Georgian-born Aslan Gagiyev’s gang has been operating since 2004 and includes over 50 members.

Members of the gang committed more than 40 counts of murder in Moscow and North Ossetia. Some of them have already been convicted and are serving long prison terms. Sixteen members of the gang have already received long prison terms, and an additional thirteen suspects are wanted by Interpol and federal law enforcement agencies.

Three more members, including the gang’s leader Aslan Gagiyev were arrested in other foreign states and are to be extradited.

Gagiyev who was arrested in Austria in January 2015 faces life sentence in Russia.