The Moscow City Court has sentenced the founder of a global cybersecurity company Group-IB, Ilya Sachkov, to 14 years in prison for high treason, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Wednesday.
"To recognize Sachkov guilty of committing a crime under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentence him to 14 years of imprisonment in a maximum-security prison," the judge said.
The court also sentenced Sachkov to one year of restriction of freedom after his release from prison and imposed a fine of 500,000 rubles ($5,550).
Sachkov's lawyer Sergei Afanasyev told Sputnik following the verdict that he would appeal against the sentence.