The Moscow City Court sentenced American citizen Gene Spector to 15 years in prison on charges of espionage, the Russian Federal Security Service said in a statement published on Friday.
The statement said: “The American citizen, who was working for the Pentagon and a commercial organization affiliated with it, collected and transferred various information to a foreign party on biotechnology and biomedicine topics, including those that constitute state secrets, in order to establish a system in the United States to conduct examination.” High-speed genetics of the population of Russia.
The statement added that the American’s guilt was proven unequivocally, and that based on the totality of the evidence obtained by the Russian Federal Security Service, the Moscow City Court, after examining the case in a closed session with the participation of the defense lawyer, sentenced the American citizen to 15 years in prison. Imposing a fine of more than 14 million rubles (about 140 thousand dollars).
Gene Spector was born in Russia and later moved to the United States and obtained citizenship. He had previously been sentenced in Russia to 4 years in prison, on charges of working as an intermediary in a bribery operation.
The independent Russian news agency Media Zona, one of whose journalists was present inside the courtroom, reported that Spector was sentenced to 13 years in a high-security penal colony on charges of espionage.
His previous bribery charge was added to this term, meaning he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Spector was also fined 14,116,805 Russian rubles (about US$140,500).
In 2020, Spector pleaded guilty to brokering bribes for Anastasia Alexeeva, a former aide to former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, according to Russia’s state news agency TASS.
Before that, Spector was chairman of the board of directors of Medpolymerprom Group, which specializes in cancer drugs, according to TASS.
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