WORLD BRIEFING / RUSSIA
A Moscow court convicted two brothers with dual Russian-U.S. citizenship of industrial espionage and gave them one-year suspended sentences, according to Russia’s top domestic security agency.
The Federal Security Service said Ilya and Alexander Zaslavsky were convicted of attempting to acquire classified data from state-owned energy company Gazprom.
Ilya Zaslavsky was employed by TNK-BP, a major Russian-British energy concern, when he was detained in March 2008 with his brother, who worked for an alumni club set up by the British Embassy’s cultural arm in Moscow.
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