MOSCOW, Dec. 17 - Employers of a Ukrainian company tried to smuggle technical documents and a sample of a state-of-the-art Russian device capable of protecting aircraft from interception by man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS).

The Volodarsky District Court in Bryansk found Mykola Arkhipov, the general director of the Ukrainian research and production company Adron, guilty of smuggling and sentenced him to five months in prison on November 16, a source involved in investigating the case told Interfax on Thursday.