A representative of the head of the company, Sergei Chemezov, spoke about this.
“We asked the court to commute the sentence. They asked to take into account mitigating circumstances, including the apologies made by the defendants,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Earlier, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced the commercial director of journalist Ksenia Sobchak Kirill Sukhanov, the former editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine Arian Romanovsky and journalist Tamerlan Bigaev in the case of extortion.
Sukhanov was sentenced to 7.5 years in a maximum security colony, Romanovsky and Bigaev received 7 years in a maximum security colony.