MOSCOW, June 1 (RAPSI) – The Moscow City Court has reduced sentence in the case over Moscow metro crash that left 24 people dead, RAPSI reported from the courtroom on Wednesday.

The court has reduced the sentence for Deputy Chief of a subcontractor of the repair project Anatoly Kruglov by three months. He is to stay in penal colony for 5 years and 3 months. Therefore the court partially granted the motion filed by his lawyers.

Earlier the victims in the case began to receive compensations from Kruglov.

However, the court upheld the sentence for other defendants in the case.

Three metro cars derailed on a section between the Park Pobedy and Slavyansky Bulvar metro stations in the west on the city during peak commute hours on July 15, 2014.

Alongside Kruglov, Alexei Trofimov, a senior executive in the Metro's repair department, the enterprise's track supervisor Valery Bashkatov and his assistant Yury Gordov have been found guilty of violation of traffic safety rules and underground operating rules that entailed death of two and more people.

Kruglov, Trofimov and Bashkatov were sentenced to 5 .5 years in prison each. Gordov was given a 6-year prison sentence.