This is Gene Spector. He was already in prison with a conviction for bribery. No details were given about the cause.
An American citizen born in Russia, who was already imprisoned in Russia for a bribery conviction, has received a second sentence of 15 years in prison for espionage, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday.
A Moscow court brought espionage charges against Gene Spector in August 2023, although details of the case were not made public.
Spector, previously an executive at a medical equipment company in Russia, was previously sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in September 2022 for facilitating bribes to an aide to former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. The assistant, Anastasia Alekseyeva, was sentenced in April to 12 years for accepting bribes for two expensive foreign holiday trips.
Dvorkovich was deputy prime minister under Dmitry Medvedev from 2012 to 2018. He is currently the president of the international chess federation FIDE.
Other background
Spector is one of many American citizens who were sentenced to long terms in Russian prisons this year.
In October, Stephen Hubbard 72 years old and originally from Michigan, was sentenced to almost seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, according to TASS.
Robert Woodlanda US citizen of Russian origin, was sentenced in July to 12 years and six months in a maximum security penal colony on drug charges.
That same month, The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich He was sentenced to 16 years in prison after being accused of spying for the CIA while working in the city of Yekaterinburg, in March 2023. He was later released in a historic prisoner exchange between Russia and the West, in August.
Source: Ambito
