FBI charges 3 Russian spies in New York


The FBI announced Monday that it has charged three people in connection to a Russian spy ring. Authorities said that the defendants tried to recruit New Yorkers as intelligence sources.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, and FBI officials announced the case on Monday. According to the report, one of the defendents was a trade representative for the Russian Federation in New York. Another defendant, meanwhile, posed as an employee at a Russian bank in Manhattan.
The FBI arrested the bank employee, Evgeny Buryakov, in the Bronx on Monday. The other two suspects are still at large but are no longer in the U.S.
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"The arrest of Evgeny Buryakov and the charges against him and his co-defendants make clear that — more than two decades after the presumptive end of the Cold War — Russian spies continue to seek to operate in our midst under cover of secrecy," Bharara said in a statement.
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Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.
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