Russian intelligence agent deported from US
The United States deported Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian convicted of espionage who spent more than two years in American prison, Radio Svoboda reports.
42 year-old Buryakov worked for several years in the US at the New York branch of Vnesheconombank, while engaging in economic espionage for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
Buryakov collaborated with two other SVR agents, Igor Sporyshev and Viktor Podobny, who worked at the Russian Trade Delegation and the Russian Mission to the UN. The other two were, however, able to leave the US before accusations were made against them. In May 2016, Buryakov confessed in court that he had acted as an unregistered agent of Russia in the US, interested in information about American sanctions against Russian companies and citizens, as well as data about the energy industry.
Recently it came out in the American press that Buryakov’s accomplice Podobny came in contact with Carter Page in 2015, who later became the adviser to Donald Trump during his presidential campaign. Page confessed to having given Buryakov an analysis of the American Energy Sector, based on publicly accessible information.
Buryakov, released ahead of schedule on account of time spent in pretrial detention, was escorted on board an Aeroflot flight and handed over to Russian authorities.