The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow has sentenced 49-year-old IT specialist Yuri Belenky, who was accused of “financing terrorism,” to 13 years in prison, reports the Pervy Otdel human rights group. According to the sentence, Belenky must spend the first three years in prison and the rest of the term in a maximum-security penal colony. The court also imposed a fine of 500,000 rubles ($6,200) and ordered the confiscation of another 126,000 rubles ($1,560).

The case against Belenky was prompted by a cryptocurrency transfer to an account published by blogger Arkady Babchenko, who was raising funds for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). The Binance cryptocurrency exchange provided a report on the transfers at the request…