A German Court on Tuesday convicted a Ukrainian man over a plot prosecutors said was linked to Russian intelligence and involved suspicious parcels sent from Germany.
The Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart said the parcels were intended to cause damage and undermine public confidence in security.
The court said three Ukrainians were involved in sending two packages containing GPS trackers and spare auto parts from Germany to Ukraine through a Ukrainian parcel service.
The operation was allegedly initiated by an unnamed Russian state entity.
According to the court, the shipments were intended by the Russian organisers to identify potential opportunities for future acts of sabotage.
The 30-year-old man was sentenced to one year and three months in prison for acting as an agent for sabotage purposes.
He will not serve additional prison time because the period spent in pre-trial detention was considered sufficient to cover his sentence.
The court acquitted the two other defendants, citing insufficient evidence that they knowingly participated in a plot to carry out such attacks.
