Gene Spector, American citizen of Russian origin, imprisoned in Moscow for espionage

A Moscow court has sentenced an American citizen of Russian origin to 15 years in prison for espionage, Russian news agencies report.

Businessman Gene Spector was already serving a three and a half year prison sentence, after being arrested in 2020 for corruption.

Last year he was also accused of espionage. Details of the alleged offenses have not been made public due to the secret nature of the case, the agencies report, and the trial was held behind closed doors.

Russia has recently taken a number of high-profile American prisoners, one of whom, journalist Evan Gershkovich, was released earlier this year in the largest exchange deal between the two countries in decades.

The US State Department has not yet commented on Spector's case. The BBC has contacted him for a statement.

Spector's 15-year sentence should have been served in a strict regime penal colony.

It includes 13 years for the new conviction, plus the time he had left to serve the previous one. A previous fine of 14 million rubles ($140,000; $112,000) was also upheld.

In previous charges, Spector was accused in 2020 of serving as an intermediary in a corruption case involving an aide to Russia's former deputy prime minister. He pleaded guilty.

Spector, whose Russian name is Eugene Mironovich, was born in 1972 in what is now St. Petersburg and was living there again with his family, RIA Novosti reported.

At some point in his life, he moved to the United States and obtained citizenship, according to another news agency, Tass. Back in Russia, he heads Medpolimerprom: a group of companies that manufacture medical supplies.

The news comes just months after a historic prisoner exchange.

In August, 24 people participated in an exchange between Russia and some Western countries, including the United States and Germany.

Among them were US citizens Evan Gershkovich – a Wall Street Journal reporter – and former US Marine Paul Whelan.

The trade has been described as the largest exchange since the end of the Cold War between Russia and the West.

Tensions between the two sides have been particularly high in recent years, following Russia's full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022.

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