The Russian-controlled Supreme Court of Crimea has issued a verdict against Ukrainian citizen Yevhen Panov, who was accused of preparing sabotage on the territory of the annexed peninsula, sentencing him to eight years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.
In particular, Panov was found guilty of all charges brought against him, namely Article 281 (preparation of sabotage), Part 3, Article 222 (illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, their main parts, ammunition), Part 3, Article 226.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (smuggling of firearms or their main parts, explosive devices, ammunition, weapons of mass destruction).
“By the aggregate of articles, by partial punishment, to impose a sentence of eight years’ imprisonment with serving a term in a high-security colony,” Judge Andrei Paliy said, Ukrinform reports.
