INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court has placed a dual U.S.-Russian citizen, who is serving a prison sentence for bribery, in pre-trial detention on charges of
Few details outside the court ruling have been made public, as espionage cases are held behind closed doors since they deal with what
Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich in the form of vacations to Thailand and the Dominican Republic
The assistant, Anastasia Alexeyeva, wassentenced to 12 years in prison.Spector pleaded guilty to the charges and reached a deal with
He was convicted in 2021, but the ruling was overturned and he was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in September 2022.Spector was born and
raised in Russia before moving to the United States where he obtained citizenship
He was the general director of Russia's Medpolimerprom, a group of companies thatmakes plastic medical devices.Spector is listed among the
website.Spector still holds Russian citizenship,according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).Several U.S
citizens have in recent years been handed heavy sentences in Russia
Washington accuses Moscow of seeking to use them as bargaining chips to obtain the release of Russians held in the United States.The United
States has not said it considers Spector to be wrongfully detained,according to CBS News.AFP contributed reporting.
