Court sentences American Spector accused of espionage to 15 years in prison

Moscow City Court sentenced U.S. citizen Gene Spector, accused of espionage, to 15 years in prison. This was reported by Izvestiya correspondent on December 24.

The details of the case are not given, as they are classified.

"To assign to Spektor a punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 13 years <...> on aggregate (with the previous sentence) to finally assign a punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 15 years to be served in a strict regime colony," the judge announced the verdict.

The court also upheld the fine of Br14.1 million imposed by the previous sentence.

Spector was arrested in a criminal espionage case in August 2023. Earlier, in June 2021, he was found guilty of mediation in giving a bribe on a particularly large scale (part 3 of Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) to Anastasia Alexeeva, an ex-assistant of former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Then the court sentenced him to four years in a penal colony. The American admitted his guilt.

The investigation believes that Alekseeva in the period from 2015 to 2016 as an assistant to Dvorkovich received a bribe in the form of trips to Thailand for the New Year holidays in 2016 and to the Dominican Republic - for the May holidays. Both tours cost 2 million rubles each.