Vnesheconombank employee detained in the United States admitted espionage

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Yevgeny Buryakov, deputy representative of Russian Vnesheconombank in New York, who was detained in January last year on suspicion of espionage, pleaded guilty to the fact that he worked as an agent of a foreign state, without notifying the US government.

Formally, Buryakova accused of criminal conspiracy for the purpose of espionage with two Russian diplomats, Igor Sporyshev and Viktor Podobny, who also worked in the United States. Both of them managed to leave the country; American authorities charged them with intelligence activities in favor of Russia.

According to the data cited in the statement of claim, Sporyshev worked until November November 2014 in the trade mission of the Russian Federation in New York, and Similar until September 2013 was an attache of the Russian diplomatic mission to the UN.

According to the investigating authorities, 41-year-old Buryakov, contrary to the requirements of the law, did not plan to inform the American authorities about his work. The investigation believes that Buryakov is a staff member of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation.

The SVR declined to comment on information about Evgeny Buryakov. Initially, Buryakov himself did not admit his guilt.

In particular, according to the American authorities, he was interested in information about potential US sanctions against Russia.

It is expected that the process over the Russian will begin in April.

Как wrote ForumDaily the day before, the prosecutor's office of the Southern District of New York reported that employees of the US Federal Bureau of Investigations had tapped telephone conversations between Yevgeny Buryakov and two other Russians. Among the materials submitted to the court are transcripts of secretly recorded conversations.

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