MOSCOW, May 31 (RAPSI) - Anatoly Kruglov, employee of a repair contractor convicted in the case over Moscow metro crash that left 24 people dead, has partially paid the victims compensation for moral injury, RAPSI reported from the Moscow City Court on Tuesday.

The court is considering an appeal lodged against the sentence. Defense lawyer asked the court to attack to the case a receipt for partial repayment of compensation for moral harm to two injured persons. However, the lawyer did not disclose the compensatory amount.

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.

Anatoly Kruglov, Deputy Chief of a subcontractor of the repair project, 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.