In the Russian capital, Moscow, has been arrested by the domestic intelligence service, the FSB, according to a U.S. citizen suspicion of Espionage. The man had been caught red-handed in a “Spionageakt,” said the FSB on Monday.
Against the US citizens a criminal case had been initiated. In the case of a conviction a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison threaten him.
The Name of the man was only called in Russian. Transferred from the Cyrillic Alphabet he could read “Paul Whelan”. Further details of the Russian secret service were not known initially.
The Americans had on the 28. December has been detained, informed the FSB on Monday. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was not initially be reached for comment.
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