MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court sentenced U.S. citizen Eugene Spector to a total of 15 years in prison after sentencing him for espionage in a closed-door trial, Russian state news agencies reported on Tuesday (24).
Already serving a 3½-year sentence in Russia for bribery, Spector, who was born Russian and later moved to the US, was charged with espionage last August.
Details of the espionage case against him were not disclosed by state media.
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State news agency TASS said Spector had initially received a 13-year prison sentence for espionage, which was added to his existing bribery sentence.
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The judge presiding over the case ruled that he must now serve a total of 15 years in a maximum security penal colony as punishment for both cases, TASS said.
