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Russian ex-cyber security chief gets 22-year sentence for treason
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:58:00 +0000 (UTC)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-ex-cyber-security-chief-gets-22-year-sentence-treason-n976191 By Associated Press Feb. 26, 2019MOSCOW -- A court in Moscow on Tuesday sentenced a senior Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at a cybersecurity firm to lengthy prison sentences on treason charges.
Moscow's District Military Court, which has been hearing the top-secret case for nearly two years behind closed doors, sentenced Col. Sergei Mikhailov, former deputy head of the FSB's Information Security Center, to 22 years in prison and a fine.
It also sentenced Ruslan Stoyanov, an executive at the Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm, to 14 years in prison and a fine.
The two men listened to the sentencing from inside a glass cage, flanked by masked men.
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