In the United States of Russians accused of spying
The United States authorities accused 3 the people of Russia that they were agents of the Russian foreign intelligence and hunted espionage. 1 the accused is arrested, two are outside of the United States and are present in the wild.
In the United States opened up a new spy scandal: 3 people of Russia, the Bank's employee Eugene beets and diplomats Igor Sporyshev and Viktor Such - were accused of espionage. The Russian Consulate General in new York is known about the detention of the 1-St Russian citizen (Sporyshev and Such are outside the United States), its employees are ready to meet with the prisoner in jail.
"We know about this situation, we will begin to do after you receive notification from the American side about the detention of Russian citizens", - quotes RIA Novosti adept Russian diplomacy. According to him, after receiving proper notice to consular officer will visit Mr. Russia in that place, where he is. With all this, Americans say that a notification has already been oriented to the Russian side.
According to our information, the proceedings Buryakov appointed on 9 February. From the indictment, which distributes the Prosecutor's office for the southern district of new York is supposed that he faces up to 15 years in prison. "Buryakov, Sporyshev and the Like are charged on 2 counts. 1 article they are accused of conspiring with the fact that Buryakov operated in the United States as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the attorney General of the United States, is punishable by a maximum term of 5 years in prison. In the 2nd article Buryakov, Sporyshev and the Like are charged with assisting in the crime - this article considers the maximum penalty 10 years imprisonment", - says the document.
Detained a resident of Russia not guilty. Not to mention the fact that the new York attorney Arkady Bukh believes that the case is politically motivated and is considered an episode of the cold war that the United States provoked against Russia. In his opinion, if those violations of the law, in which blame the Russians, would make citizens of Italy or England, it is unlikely that they would put him in jail.
"This case, on the one hand, the criminal, because they violated the laws of the United States: advising the government of Russia is possible only in the presence of accreditation of state Department of the United States. But it is also political, as it was clear that the inhabitants of our planet from "friendly" U.S. States that have implemented a similar violation, not to be arrested on such complaints" - said the lawyer.
To compromise a Bank employee Eugene Buryakov FBI used their own agent. He portrayed the adept rich investor who wanted to cooperate with the Bank for the construction of casinos in Russia", says the indictment.
Taking into account the opinion of the investigation, the accused was overly curious for a regular employee of the Bank. In discussions with the provocateur had the desire to gain information about things that "went far beyond the duties of a Bank clerk". The agent with all this said Burakova, that can get to him the documents of the government of the United States, which could be of interest to Russia. Buryakov called suggestions regarding casino, insolvent, using all this rather rude expression.
And still, then the Russians met with FBI informant who told him that the project construction casino can affect punishment against Russia. With all this FBI agent handed Burakovo a document entitled "only for internal consumption of the Ministry of Finance with a list of masters of Russia, who are under punishment in the United States. The banker took him this document, at the upcoming meeting received another with a list of banks, against which the American government intends to use the new restrictive measures. The result implies that after this Buryakov passed all purchased from the FBI paper Russian diplomat.
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