Eleven people charged in Russian spy case
09:07, 8 July 2010
NEW YORK. July 8. KAZINFORM Eleven suspects accused of spying for Russia were formally charged in a US federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday; Kazinform refers to China Daily.
The indictment charged all the defendants with conspiring to act as secret agents and also charged nine of them with conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Federal judges in Boston and Alexandria, Va., signed orders directing that five defendants arrested in Massachusetts and Virginia be transferred to New York.
Last month, 10 people were arrested in the United States suspected of spying for Russia. An 11th was detained in Cyprus and later went missing after his release on bail.
All 11 people were charged in Manhattan and had to be brought there eventually while they were scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on the indictment; Kazinform cites China Daily.
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