A Simferopol court has sentenced twenty-three-year-old Muscovite Alexei Zhurin to two years in prison for interfering with the work of Crimean mobile operators Krymtelekom and Sevtelekom, reported Crimea’s prosecutor’s office.
Judge Vitaly Mikhailov found Zhurin guilty of causing largescale damage to the operators’ property as part of a conspiracy. The Court found the Muscovite guilty of artificially increasing the volume of international traffic and, thereby, increasing the operators’ debt.
In addition to serving out his sentence, Zhurin will have to pay a fine of 600,000 rubles (approximately $9,900) and compensate for the damage incurred by the operators. The damage amounted to a total of 30 million rubles (approximately $493,800). The court has also seized the Muscovite’s personal effects to the amount of 4 million rubles ($65,800).
It was not specified when exactly Zhurin interfered with the work of the mobile operators, nor was it specified whom Zhurin was plotting with.