MOSCOW, June 13 (RAPSI) – A U.S. court has sentenced Timur Safin, one of four defendants in cyber fraud case, to three years in prison and obliged him to pay victims $250,000 in compensation, the documents obtained by RAPSI read on Tuesday.

A prosecutor in the case asked the United States District Court for Central District of California to sentence the defendant to four years, while the defense asked for 2.5 years. Safin’s lawyers said that this is the first breach of the law by his client and that he may be deported to Russia after serving his time despite having a legally obtained permanent residence in the United States. Safin has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and use of unauthorized access device.

The criminal case reached the court in April 2016. Other defendants are Russian nationals Irina Fedoseyeva, Dmitry Fedoseyev, Christina Gerasimova and Belorussian national Sergey Patapau.

The indictment reads that Safin, Fedoseyev, Fedoseyeva and Patapau fraudulently got access credit cards with limit of up to $5,000,000 and used those to obtain luxurious products for later resale or exchange.

During the searches, law enforcement officers found hundreds of fake credit cards and equipment for their production as well as personal data of legal bank accounts owners used for production of credit cards. The U.S. Ministry of Justice estimates damage caused by fraud from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000.