MOSCOW. Oct 14 (Interfax-AVN) - The defense lawyers for Yury Soloshenko, former director of the Ukrainian plant Znamya, have no intention to file an appeal.
"I take his wish not to file an appeal for granted," lawyer Gennady Blokhin told Interfax on Wednesday.
The lawyer said he as a lawyer should support the position of his client, "even if it is wrong."
He said the state prosecutor had asked the court to sentence Soloshenko to ten years in jail.
The defense lawyer did not rule out that the convict will be extradited to Ukraine, adding that the process has been launched.
"I don't rule out his handover to Ukraine after the sentence takes legal effect," Blokhin said.
The Moscow City Court on Wednesday found Soloshenko guilty of espionage for Ukraine and sentenced him to six years in a high-security penal colony. Thus, the court has given to the defendant the least punishment possible because Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code punishes espionage by ten to twenty years in prison.