MOSCOW, July 13 (RAPSI) – The Supreme Court of Crimea on Friday sentenced Yevgeny Panov, a defendant in the case over sabotage plot in the republic, to 8 years in prison, lawyer Sergey Legostov told RAPSI.

On July 9, a prosecutor demanded a 10.5-year prison sentence for Panov.

In February, another defendant Andrey Zakhtey was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison and fined 220,000 rubles (about $4,000).

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. Zakhtey reportedly was arrested on suspicion of providing activities of the raiding force.