Russian arrested for spying in the United States received 2,5 of the year in prison

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Russian citizen Yevgeny Buryakov, accused by the US authorities of illegal work in a foreign country, was sentenced to 30 months of imprisonment and $ 10000 a fine.

From the courtroom, announcing the verdict, federal judge Richard Berman reported that the months he had already spent in custody would count Buryakov. Thus, a Russian citizen will stay in an American prison for about a year and a half.

Buryakov, who worked as deputy head of the Vnesheconombank representative office in New York, was arrested in January 2015. He is accused of the fact that banking was for him only a cover, which helped to secretly collect economic information.

In particular, the indictment contains two counts. It says that E. Buryakov and two other suspects - diplomats from Russia - entered into a conspiracy to espionage and conducted espionage activities. All three, as investigators believe, collected intelligence about potential US sanctions against Russia, пишет Interfax.

Initially, it was reported that Buryakov allegedly worked for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and was engaged in collecting intelligence information in the United States, but this information did not appear in the indictment.

In the end, Buryakov whiskey on a deal with the prosecutor's office, pleading guilty of criminal conspiracy to work in the US as an agent of a foreign state, specifically the Russian Federation, without proper registration with the US Justice Department.

In return, the prosecution promised not to demand for Buryakova punishment of more than 2,5 years in prison, although she could have asked for five years пишет Air Force

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