MOSCOW, September 10 - RAPSI. The Supreme Court's panel for criminal cases will hear on September 24 an appeal of the sentences imposed for the 2009 Nevsky Express train bombing, the court reported on its website.

Four of the 10 individuals involved in the case were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Moscow-St. Petersburg train crashed after a bomb exploded on the Tver-Novgorod regional border on November 28, 2009. The blast killed 28 people and injured over 90.

Zelemkhan Aushev and nine individuals with the surname Kartoyev were brought to court. The Tver Region Court found all 10 individuals guilty of involvement in an illegal armed group and illegal arms sales, and handed down sentences ranging in severity from two years to life imprisonment on May 22.

Musa Pliyev, the attorney of one of the convicted individuals, told RIA Novosti earlier that the investigators did not submit a single piece of evidence demonstrating the defendants' guilt during the trial. He added that the court was impartial and the sentence unjust.

Earlier, the Tver Regional Court satisfied Russian Railways' civil lawsuit against Zelemkhan Aushev and Beslan, Murad and Tatarkhan Kartoyev, who were sentenced to life in prison and a fine of $4.22 million in damages after the bombing.

The carrier was awarded 134 million rubles ($4.22 million), as opposed to the 148 million rubles ($4.67 million) initially sought.

The court has also collected from the convicts 8 million rubles ($257,000) for the victims. Some of the lawsuits have been dismissed, and the court has advised the claimants to seek compensation through a civil proceeding.

The court also acquitted a number of individuals who had been accused of thuggery, finding that they had committed no crime.