8 Feb 2013 16:01

Kvachkov gets 13 years in jail for plotting armed mutiny - court

MOSCOW. Feb 8 (Interfax) - The Moscow City Court has sentenced former colonel Vladimir Kvachkov to 13 years in a high security prison on counts of plotting an armed mutiny and assisting terrorists.

The verdict is spelled out in the resolutive part of the sentence, an Interfax correspondent reported.

The Moscow City Court found Kvachkov guilty after it established that he met with opposition leaders in 2009 and urged them to join an armed mutiny in different cities.

The other suspect, Alexander Kiselyov, was found guilty, too.