Two migrants get long prison terms for plotting explosion at Moscow shop
MOSCOW. Dec 25 (Interfax) - Moscow City Court has found two men guilty of plotting a terror attack at an Auchan store in northern Moscow in 2012 and sentenced them to 12 and nine and a half years of imprisonment.
"The court sentenced Murad Magamedov to 12 years of imprisonment and imposed a 100,000 ruble fine. Feruz Nazarov has been sentenced to nine and a half years of imprisonment," Moscow City Court acting spokesperson Yekaterina Igumnova told Interfax on Thursday.
The convicts will be serving their sentences at a high-security prison, she added.
According to the inquiry, in the fall of 2010 Magamedov, a native of Tajikistan, was a member of an illegal armed group in Derbent, which routinely attacked border outposts. In 2012, he moved to Moscow where he set up an extremist cell which was joined Nazarov, a native of Turkmenistan. In the fall of the same year, they made improvised bombs, one of which was tested and blew up in a forest, the other was intended for the Auchan store in Altufyevo, the investigators said.
The pair was arrested on November 5, 2012. During the arrest police found them in possession of drugs and also seized a grenade and five cartridges from Magamedov.
Magamedov, who is currently 24 years old, has refused to testify. The 26-year-old Nazarov pleaded not guilty, Moscow City Court said.