CNN —A Moscow court has on Tuesday sentenced a US citizen to 15 years in prison for espionage, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti. Gene Spector, who was born in Russia but later moved to the United States and received citizenship, had previously been sentenced to four years in prison in Russia for acting as an intermediary in a bribe, Russian state media said. Independent Russian outlet Media Zona, who had a journalist inside the courtroom, reported that Spector was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security penal colony on espionage charges. Before this, Spector was the chairman of the board of directors of Medpolymerprom Group, specializing in cancer drugs, according to TASS. Spector is one of a host of US citizens who have been sentenced to lengthy terms in Russian prisons this year.

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Persons: Gene Spector, Spector, Anastasia Alekseyeva, Arkady Dvorkovich, Stephen Hubbard, Robert Woodland, Evan Gershkovich Organizations: CNN, RIA Novosti, Independent, Medpolymerprom Group, TASS, Wall Street, CIA Locations: Moscow, Russia, United States, Michigan, Ukraine, Yekaterinburg