Citizen of Russia Evgeny Buryakov, who was convicted in 2016 for espionage in favor of Moscow, paroled from Federal prison in Alton, Ohio. It is reported TASS with reference to representatives of the penitentiary.
The Russian was released on Friday, March 31, said the news Agency.
In may 2016 Buryakov, an employee of the representative office of Vnesheconombank in new York, was sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment, he read held under arrest for 16 months. It was reported that at the end of the prison term he should be deported.
The banker was charged with work in the USA, as agent of the foreign intelligence Service (SVR) under informal cover. He pleaded guilty in that he acted as a foreign agent without notifying the local authorities. According to the investigation, Buryakov and two other Russians Igor Sporyshev and Viktor Such — to gather economic and other intelligence information.