Eugene Spector, a Russian-born American citizen already serving a prison sentence in Russia for bribery, has been given an additional 15-year term after being convicted of espionage. Spector, originally from Leningrad, later relocated to the United States and obtained citizenship.

Details of the espionage charges, brought against Spector by a Moscow court in August 2023, remain undisclosed. The U.S. State Department has acknowledged awareness of the sentencing and stated they are monitoring the situation.

Prior to this espionage conviction, Spector, a former executive at a medical equipment company, was sentenced in September 2022 to three and a half years for facilitating bribes to an aide of former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. The aide, Anastasia Alekseyeva, received a 12-year sentence in April for accepting bribes in the form of two luxurious vacations abroad. Dvorkovich served as deputy prime minister under Dmitry Medvedev from 2012 to 2018 and currently leads the international chess federation FIDE.