Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Evgeny Buryakov, 39, on Monday, Jan. 26 in New York on charges of spying for the Russian Federation.
Two other Russian men, Victor Podobnyy and Igor Sporyshev, were also charged with conspiracy for working with Buryakov as well as trying to recruit more spies, but had already fled the United States by the time of Buryakov’s arrest and are protected by diplomatic immunity; Podobnyy had been in the country as a United Nations attaché and Sporyshev was here as a Russian trade representative. Both allegedly attempted to win over female college students for their cause. FBI agents recorded conversations in which the men expressed their frustration with these efforts.
“I have lots of ideas about such girls, but these ideas are not actionable, because they don’t allow to get close enough,” stated Sporyshev in one such FBI-recorded conversation. “And in order to get close, you either need to fuck them or use other levers to influence them to execute my requests.”
Buryakov worked in Manhattan at a Russian bank and allegedly covertly gathered economic intelligence to report to SVR, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service. Apparently he attempted to garner information about the New York Stock Exchange, alternative energy resources and potential sanctions against Russia. In the official federal complaint against Buryakov, he is specifically charged with ‘conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government’ and ‘acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government’.
“These charges demonstrate our firm commitment to combating attempts by covert agents to illegally gather intelligence and recruit spies within the United States,” said Attorney General, Eric Holder, in a statement. “We will use every tool at our disposal to identify and hold accountable foreign agents operating inside this country — no matter how deep their cover.”
FBI agents had Buryakov under surveillance from at least March 2012.
“In the course of this investigation, the FBI has employed a variety of lawful methods,” stated Special Agent, Gregory Monaghan, in the FBI’s Buryakov complaint. “For example, the FBI has conducted extensive physical and electronic surveillance of the defendants.”
Much of this surveillance occurred in public places, as Buryakov often met with Sporyshev outside, ironically to avoid detection, according to reports.
Sources:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/253795635/Evgeny-Bur-Yakov-Complaint
http://rt.com/usa/226447-russian-spies-fbi-york/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/26/fbi-arrests-russian-spy_n_6548932.html
still doesn’t beat Americas spies working as terrorists and blowing things, executing innocent lives….
The reality is that the american government have stopped them because the intel they potentially could find would damage America’s federal gorvernments reputation not because its dangerous to the people. If they found future homeland ops and release the information in public presence imagine the up rising
Ha. Haha. Hahaha. The Obama administration, the purveyors of all things NDAA and NSA related, spies among spies, decries Russians for spying.
I would make the pot/kettle metaphor about Obama, but “DATS RACIST GUYZ”. So I’ll just call them a bunch of fucking hypocrites to the nth degree.