VEB employee Buryakov charged with espionage in U.S. pleads guilty - U.S. State Attorney's Office for New York's Southern District
New York. March 11 (Interfax) - Russian citizen Yevgeny Buryakov, an employee at Vneshekonombank, or VEB , charged by the U.S. authorities with espionage for the benefit of Russia, pled guilty during a court hearing in New York.
"Yes, Yevgeny Buryakov has pled guilty," a member of the press service of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York told Interfax on Friday.
Another court hearing of the Buryakov case took place in New York, on Friday.
It is expected that jurors will start examining the case in early April.
Buryakov, 41, used to hold the position of deputy head of the representative office of Vnesheconombank in the U.S. He was arrested in January 2015. He was suspected of using banking as a cover to help him gather economic data.
The bill of indictment contained two counts. Buryakov, along with two other suspects who are Russian diplomats, made a conspiracy for the purposes of espionage and acted as spies, according to the document. Investigators believe that all the three suspects collected intelligence about the potential U.S. sanctions against Russia.
