A Russian court has sentenced US citizen Eugene Spector to a total of 15 years in jail after convicting him of espionage in a closed-door trial, Russian state news agencies report.
Already serving a 3-1/2-year sentence in Russia for bribery, Spector, who was born in Russia and then moved to the US, was charged last August with espionage.
The details of the espionage case against him have not been made public by state media.
The TASS state news agency says Spector has been given a 13-year-jail sentence for spying, which is added to his existing bribery sentence, giving him 15 years total in a maximum security penal colony.
Before his 2021 arrest, Spector served as chairman of the board of Medpolymerprom Group, a company specializing in cancer-curing drugs, state media has said.
Spector in his first court case had pleaded guilty to helping bribe an assistant to an ex-Russian deputy prime minister.
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