MOSCOW, February 16 (RAPSI) – The Supreme Court of Crimea has sentenced Andrey Zakhtey charged with sabotage plot in the republic to 6.5 years in prison, the court’s press office has told RAPSI.

Additionally, the defendant has been fined 220,000 rubles (about $4,000).

Zakhtey’s alleged accomplice, Yevgeny Panov is currently continuing reading the case materials, according to his lawyer Sergey Legostov.

In August 2016, Russia’s Federal Security Service reported prevention of terror attacks in Crimea prepared by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s General Directorate of Intelligence against critical infrastructure components of the peninsula. According to a republic’s law enforcement source, seven suspects were arrested. Panov, an officer of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate, is believed to be one of the organizers of the crime.