The Moscow City Court has sentenced Aslanbek Khasanov, the organizer of the bombing near a Moscow MacDonald's restaurant in October 2002, to 22 years in jail. The court found Khasanov guilty of terrorism, possessing and transporting ammunition, and murder, Interfax reports. On April 27 2004, the Moscow City Court sentenced the four other defendants in the Moscow restaurant bombing case to prison terms ranging between 15 and 22 years.On October 19, 2002 a car bomb exploded behind a McDonald's franchise in Moscow, killing one and injuring at least seven. Police detained several suspects within the case, all of them alleged Muslim extremists supporting Chechnya's independence from Russia. The bombing took place days before the hostage crisis in Moscow Nord-Ost theater.