MOSCOW — A Russian-born U.S. citizen already imprisoned in Russia on a bribery conviction has been handed a second 15-year jail time period for espionage, Russian information companies reported Tuesday.
A Moscow court docket brought espionage charges in opposition to Gene Spector in August 2023, though particulars surrounding the case weren’t made public.
Spector, previously an govt at a medical tools firm in Russia, was beforehand sentenced to three.5 years in jail in September 2022 for enabling bribes to an aide of former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. The aide, Anastasia Alekseyeva, was sentenced to 12 years in April for taking bribes of two costly abroad trip journeys.
Dvorkovich was a deputy prime minister beneath Dmitry Medvedev in 2012-2018. He’s at the moment head of the worldwide chess federation FIDE.
