Spy group without Anya Chapman

The Federal Prosecutor's Office of the Southern District of New York announced the exposure of the “Russian spy organization”, which allegedly consisted of 39-year-old Yevgeny Buryakov, 40-year-old Igor Sporyshev, and 27-year-old Viktor Sotod. According to Pritu Bharara, Chief Prosecutor of the District, Buryakov, who works in the SVR, was in New York as an employee of an unnamed Russian bank and was collecting intelligence information. Local media immediately established that this was Vnesheconombank, whose representative office is located at No. 777 on Third Avenue, almost opposite the Tass office in New York. The list of his employees includes the deputy representative of the bank Evgeny Evgenievich Buryakov.

Since he was not officially related to the government of the Russian Federation, Buryakov could not visit the New York office of the SVR, located at one of the Russian facilities in Manhattan, and leave the information collected there. For this purpose, the staff of the SVR Sporyshev and Vodka who worked under the official roof were assigned to him.
From 22 in November 2010 of the year to 21 in November of 2014, Sporyshev served as trade representative of the Russian Federation in New York. From 13 December 2012 of the Year. Similar was the attache of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN. They have already left the United States and are outside of US jurisdiction.
As official representatives of Russia, they should not have been separately registered as its agents. But they had no right to collude with Buryakov and promote his activities as an unregistered agent of Russia in the United States.
In contrast, Buryakov remained in the United States and was arrested in the Bronx on Monday, January 26. In the afternoon, he was to be delivered to the Manhattan Federal Court for initial registration.
Like 10, the Russians arrested in 2010, of which only Anna Chapman, Buryakov, Sporyshev and the Like were remembered by the public, were not accused of spying, but in collusion, during which Buryakov, in violation of the law, did not register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, but two others he was assisted.
In total, everyone faces up to 15 years in prison.
According to Bharara, Sporyshev and Simone carried out the connection between Buryakov and the Moscow center, using the equipment that was in their residency. From March 2012 to the middle of 2014, the FBI carried out external and electronic surveillance of Buryakov and Sporyshev and recorded approximately 45 meetings between them, in part of which Buryakov handed over packets, magazines or sheets of paper to his colleague.
These meetings usually took place on the street, and not in the room where it would be easier to watch them.
Each meeting was preceded by a short telephone conversation between Buryakov and Sporyshev, in which one said to the other that he should give something to him. Usually a ticket, a book, a list, an umbrella, a hat or other prose item appeared.
As the prosecutor's office notes, the conversation about the ticket was never accompanied by a discussion of a sports match or a concert.
As is evident from court documents, the FBI recorded conversations in the New York residency office of the SVR and secretly searched Buryakov’s computer in his bank.
For example, when Western sanctions against Russia began and the center instructed Buryakov to gather intelligence on this topic, he entered the words “sanctions, Russia, consequences” into a search engine.
Sporyshev and Vokhozhny not only received intelligence information from Buryakov, but also allegedly collected them themselves. In particular, they allegedly tried to recruit female students, graduates and graduate students of a New York university. The court document contains juicy quotes from their conversation on this topic, unfortunately, in an English translation.
The FBI recorded how Sporyshev called Buryakov and asked him to formulate questions that the leaders of the New York Stock Exchange had to ask the staff of the “leading Russian state media” in New York on behalf of the center.
One of these media outlets told me that they had never been on the exchange. The other has practically ceased to exist.
Last summer, Buryakov repeatedly met with an FBI secret informer identified in court documents as CS-1 and posing as a representative of a large investor who wants to invest money in a casino in Russia. According to prosecutors, in the course of their conversations, Buryakov constantly showed interest in information that went beyond the limits of his banking work, but could be useful to Russian intelligence.
He also allegedly received from CS-1 the documents that, according to his interlocutor, were taken in a certain US state department and related to US sanctions against Russia.
After hearing about the accusations against three Russians, an immigrant living in New York wrote to friends: “With the son of one of the suspects, my son cursed last year, calling him a fascist for wanting to bomb Kiev. Mother (his) tried to sort things out with me, but I immediately said that I was proud of my child and that only the fascists might want to die to other people. Since then, barely noticing me on the horizon, they immediately crossed to the other side of the street. ”