It is reported that the hearing was held in closed session.

According to the press secretary of the court, the case was considered in a special order, which implies full admission of guilt to the accused without examination of the evidence.

Dokuchaev was a subordinate of the head of one of the divisions of the Information Security Center of the FSB, Sergei Mikhailov, who in February received 22 years in prison.

Ruslan Stoyanov, a computer incident investigator at Kaspersky Lab, and businessman George Fomchenkov were also sent to the colony.