MOSCOW, October 9 (RAPSI) – Prosecutors have filed a motion with the Supreme Court of Russian demanding to increase a prison sentence of Yevgeny Panov convicted of plotting sabotage Crimea by 2.5 years, lawyer Sergey Legostov has told RAPSI.

The Supreme Court will hear the motion as well as appeals filed by Panov’s defense on October 25, Legostov has added.

Panov was sentenced to 8 years in prison in July.

In February, another defendant in the case Andrey Zakhtey received 6.5 years in prison and was fined 220,000 rubles ($3,300 at the current exchange rate).

In August 2016, Russia’s Federal Security Service reported prevention of terror attacks in Crimea prepared by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s General Directorate of Intelligence against critical infrastructure components of the peninsula.

According to a republic’s law enforcement source, seven suspects were arrested. Panov, an officer of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate, is believed to be one of the organizers of the crime. Zakhtey reportedly was arrested on suspicion of providing activities of the raiding force.