Russian ex-cyber security chief gets 22-year sentence for treason

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-ex-cyber-security-chief-gets-22-year-sentence-treason-n976191

By Associated Press
Feb. 26, 2019

MOSCOW -- 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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