YEKATERINBURG. Feb 26 (Interfax) - The Sverdlovsk Regional Court on Tuesday sentenced Leonid Khabarov, Viktor Kralin and Alexander Ladeishchikov, all supporters of ex-Military Intelligence Service colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, to imprisonment.
Kvachkov was earlier convicted on charges of attempting an armed mutiny.
Khabarov and Kralin have been sentenced to 4.5 years in a general prison, and Ladeishchikov got a two-year suspended sentence, an Interfax correspondent reported from the courtroom.
Khabarov was found guilty of recruiting terrorists and illegally possessing weapons, but charges of plotting an armed mutiny, illegally acquiring, keeping, transporting drugs, and plotting a crime were dropped against him.
Kralin was found guilty of recruiting terrorists and illegally possessing weapons, while Ladeishchikov was convicted for illegally possessing weapons..
The Federal Security Service earlier reported that several of Kvachkov's supporters had been detained in Yekaterinburg following a series of searches at the suspects' offices and residences in July 2011. Ammunition, explosives and extremist literature were seized during the searches.
On February 8, the Moscow City Court sentenced Kvachkov to 13 years in a high security prison on counts of plotting an armed mutiny and assisting terrorists.
Kvachkov's defense lawyers appealed the sentence in a plea which urged the Supreme Court to reverse the guilty verdict and to acquit their client.