MOSCOW — A Russian-born US citizen already jailed in Russia on a bribery conviction has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on espionage charges, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday.
A court in Moscow He filed espionage charges against Gene Spector in August 2023, although details of the case have not been made public.
Spector, a former director of a Russian medical equipment company, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in September 2022 for allowing bribes to an aide to former Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Assistant Anastasia Alekseyeva was sentenced to 12 years in prison in April for accepting bribes for two expensive foreign holiday trips.
Dvorkovich was Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in 2012-2018. Today, FIDE is the head of the international chess federation.
