KIEV, April 12 – Kiev’s Pechersky District Court has sentenced former acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivaschenko to five years in prison and barred him from fulfillment of organizational and administrative activities in state agencies for three years.

Ivaschenko was also stripped of the second rank of public official.

The court also sentenced the former manager of the reorganization of Feodosiya shipbuilding and mechanical plant, Serhiy Mikheyev, to three years in prison and forbade him to hold public positions for three years.

The court announced the sentences on Thursday.