ST. PETERSBURG, June 8 (RAPSI, Mikhail Telekhov) – The St. Petersburg City Court on Wednesday sentenced Vyacheslav Finogenov,46, to 22 years in prison for killing Dmitry Soshnev, the director of Coca-Cola plant near St. Petersburg, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.

Another defendant in the case Denis Chkhitauri received a 16-year prison sentence.

Earlier, a prosecutor asked the court to sentence Finogenov to life in prison. A 21-year prison term was demanded for Chkhitauri.

In April, jurors found Finogenov guilty of murder with intent to rob, document theft and arms traffic. Chkhitauri was found guilty of organizing the murder, robbery, document theft, trafficking in weapons but acquitted of drug trafficking.

In April, jurors found Finogenov and Chkhitauri guilty of killing the director of Coca-Cola plant.

Soshnev went missing in November 2014. Investigators have established that Soshnev met with Chkhitauri and Finogenov, who had a murder record, on December 28, 2014. The suspects lured him to a garage area in the Frunzensky District, where Finogenov allegedly shot Soshnev with a shotgun.

The defendants took the victim’s money (about 160,000 rubles or $2,400) and his BMW registration documents, which they planned to sell for 1 million rubles ($15,300), according to the Investigative Committee.