MOSCOW. May 25 (Interfax) - The Moscow Savyolovsky District Court has sentenced Musail Ismailov, who, according to the investigators, tried to sell bad parts for the MiG-29 planes intended for supply to Algeria, to 7.5 years in a penal colony, court secretary Yevgeny Vorobyov told Interfax.
Vorobyov said the sentence had been read on Monday, May 23.
The criminal case was tried in a special mode, without a study of the evidence or questioning of witnesses because the defendant had fully admitted his guilt. Defendants tried in such a regime cannot receive more than two-thirds of the punishment envisioned by the articles of the Criminal Code they are charged with violating.