U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says federal agents have broken up an alleged Russian spy ring in New York City where three suspects tried to recruit U.S. residents.
The FBI arrested Evgeny Buryakov in the Bronx section of New York Monday.
Two other suspects — Victor Podobnyy and Igor Sporyshev — are no longer in the United States and have diplomatic immunity, but were still charged.
According to the Justice Department’s complaint, Buryakov broke U.S. law by not informing officials that he was in the country as a covert Russian intelligence agent.
He was working in a New York City office of a Russian …read more
Source: Voice of America
