Giving the verdict, the judge said: "To sentence Spektor to 13 years' imprisonment... together (with the previous sentence) to finally sentence him to 15 years' imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony.".
Russia sentences American citizen Gene Spector to maximum security prison for 'espionage' An American citizen has been sentenced to prison in Russia for "espionage".
Gene Spektor, a businessman who was born and raised in Russia before moving to the US and becoming a citizen, was already serving a prison sentence on a bribery conviction when he was arrested on an espionage charge last year.
He was initially sentenced to four years in prison, but was retried on a technicality and received a new sentence of three-and-a-half years behind bars in September 2022.
In 2021, Spektor pleaded guilty to mediating a bribe for an aide to a Russian deputy prime minister while he was chairman of the board of the Medpolimerprom group of companies in Russia.
