Evgeny Buryakov

Buryakov was born on March 2, 1975, in Krasnodar Krai,{{cite news |url=https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.438190/gov.uscourts.nysd.438190.52.2.pdf |title=Document 52-2 |author=Southern District of New York |author-link=Southern District of New York |date=July 6, 2015}} and previously worked at a tax office in Moscow before coming to America.{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/02/nuns-house-sat-for-russian-spy.html |title=Russian Spies and the Nuns Next Door |first=Michael |last=Daly |date= February 2015}} His father, Yevgeny Petrovich Buryakov, is an engineer at the Russian Embassy in Tunis.{{cite news|last1=Козловский|first1=Владимир Русская|title=Прокурор и защита добились мягкого приговора для Бурякова в США|url=http://www.bbc.com/russian/international/2016/05/160525_usa_buryakov_sentence|access-date=May 22, 2017|publisher=BBC Russia|date=May 25, 2016}}

His wife, Marina, said they met in Kushchevskaya in 1994 in when she was in high school. They married in May 1999. They have one son and one daughter. After Buryakov's arrest in 2015, his mother, Tatiana, returned from Tunis to Moscow to help look after his children.

Prior to working in New York City, Buryakov worked in Pretoria under non-official cover from October 1, 2004, to April 30, 2009.{{cite news |publisher=CNN |quote=Podobnyy was recorded telling Sporyshev that Buryakov had been in South Africa under what the prosecutors say was "non-official cover between approximately 2004 and 2009." |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/us/russian-spy-ring-fbi/ |title=Court documents: FBI bugged binders to eavesdrop on Russian spy ring |first=Lorenzo |last=Ferrigno |date=March 11, 2016}} Beginning around March 2012, in dozens of occasions at locations in and around Manhattan and the Bronx, Buryakov began meeting with Sporyshev and Podobnyy for the purpose of exchanging information related to their work as intelligence officers operating within the United States at the direction of the Russian SVR. They tasked Buryakov with attempting to recruit New York City residents as intelligence sources, as well as gathering information about U.S. sanctions on Russia and U.S. efforts to develop alternative energy resources. Buryakov worked for Directorate ER of the SVR, which is focused on economic intelligence.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/meet-the-alleged-russian-economic-spy-with-a-linkedin-account/article22650214/ |first=Michael |last=Babad |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |title=Why would an alleged Russian spy want to know about ETFs? |date=January 27, 2015}} Buryakov also came up with questions for the Russian News Agency TASS to ask at the New York Stock Exchange regarding high-frequency trading, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and automatic trading robots.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/high-frequency-trading-russian-spies |title=The FBI Just Arrested an Alleged Russian Spy Who Wanted to Know How to Trigger an Economic Meltdown |first=Nick |last=Baumann|magazine=Mother Jones |date=January 26, 2016}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/01/cold-war-echoes-in-a-new-russian-spy-ring/384854/ |magazine=The Atlantic |date=January 26, 2015 |first=Russell |last=Berman |title=Cold War Echoes in a New Russian Spy Ring}}

Beginning in 2013, an undercover agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), posing as an analyst for an energy firm, began providing Sporyshev with binders containing industry analyses and bugged with hidden microphones, allowing the FBI to record Sporyshev, Podobnyy, and other Russian intelligence personnel.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage-idUSKCN0WB2NM |title=FBI penetrated New York-based Russian spy ring using hidden recorders |first=Nate |last=Raymond |work=Reuters |date=March 9, 2016}} The undercover agent met Buryakov at a Manhattan office, as well as at casinos in Atlantic City.{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2015/01/26/3-russians-charged-in-spy-plot-in-nyc/ |newspaper=New York Post|title=Russians charged with plotting to recruit NYC co-eds as spies |first1=Shawn |last1=Cohen |first2=Bruce |last2=Golding |date=January 26, 2015}}

On April 3, 2017, Carter Page revealed to BuzzFeed that he is "Male-1" in the January 2015 indictments against Evgeny Buryakov, Viktor Podobnyy, and Igor Sporyshev and that Page had met with Podobnyy beginning in 2013.{{cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alimwatkins/a-former-trump-adviser-met-with-a-russian-spy|title=A Former Trump Adviser Met With A Russian Spy: Carter Page told BuzzFeed News that he had been in contact with at least one Russian spy working undercover out of Moscow's UN office in 2013.|date=April 3, 2017|work=BuzzFeed|last=Watkins|first=Ali|access-date=September 27, 2018}} In January 2015, the three Russians were charged with overtly conspiring against the United States and that Buryakov had been an unregistered agent of a foreign government.{{cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/russian-banker-sentenced-manhattan-federal-court-30-months-prison-conspiring-work|title=Russian Banker Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 30 Months In Prison For Conspiring To Work For Russian Intelligence: Evgeny Buryakov, a/k/a "Zhenya," Who Worked For Russian Intelligence Under "Non-Official Cover" As A Banker In Manhattan, Was Also Ordered To Pay A $10,000 Fine And Ordered Removed From The United States|date=May 25, 2016|publisher=Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of New York|access-date=September 27, 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/26/us-charges-alleged-russian-spies-new-york|title=US charges Russian 'spies' suspected of trying to recruit New Yorkers: Evgeny Buryakov, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobny allegedly conspired to gather intelligence on behalf of Russia and to recruit Americans|date=January 26, 2015|newspaper=The Guardian|last=Yuhas|first=Alan|access-date=September 27, 2018}} In absentia, 40 year old Podobnyy and 27 year old Sporyshev were charged also with aiding and abetting Buryakov, but were not arrested because Podobnyy and Sporyshev, as officials of the Russian government, left the United States under diplomatic immunity. During the investigations of the three Russians, the United States government used recorded transcripts of their conversations.{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/03/carter-page-nunes-memo-216934|title=Why Carter Page Was Worth Watching: There's plenty of evidence that the former Trump campaign adviser, for all his quirks, was on suspiciously good terms with Russia.|date=February 3, 2018|work=Politico|last=Harding|first=Luke|author-link=Luke Harding|access-date=October 8, 2018}} Later, during October 2016 when the FBI and the Justice Department officials obtained a 90-day warrant for electronic surveillance of Carter Page who had ceased being an adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application included Page's relationships with Buryakov, Podobnyy, and Sporyshev as part of the basis for obtaining the warrant.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-obtained-fisa-warrant-to-monitor-former-trump-adviser-carter-page/2017/04/11/620192ea-1e0e-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html|title=FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page|date=April 11, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|last1=Nakashima|first1=Ellen|last2=Barrett|first2=Devlin|last3=Entous|first3=Adam|access-date=September 27, 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/former-trump-adviser-carter-page-under-fisa-warrant-since-2014-report|title=Former Trump adviser Carter Page under FISA warrant since 2014|date=August 3, 2017|newspaper=Washington Examiner|last=Phillips|first=Ariella|access-date=October 8, 2018}}

Buryakov's defense, financed by Vnesheconombank, argued that he was protected from the charges by virtue of being an official employee of the Russian government, though this argument was rejected by Judge Richard M. Berman.{{cite news |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6c9618f4a47f41ffa5b830b21932cd9c/judge-refuses-toss-out-us-spying-charges-against-banker |title=Judge refuses to toss out US spying charges against banker |first=Tom |last=Hays |date=July 29, 2015 |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=March 20, 2016 |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404132640/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6c9618f4a47f41ffa5b830b21932cd9c/judge-refuses-toss-out-us-spying-charges-against-banker |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-spies-usa-idUSKBN0NX26520150512 |work=Reuters |date=May 12, 2015 |title=Accused Russian spy's U.S. legal fees paid by Moscow-owned bank |first=Joseph |last=Ax}} Buryakov ultimately pleaded guilty to the charges against him, and was sentenced to 30 months in prison and a $100,000 fine.{{cite web | url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-spy-pleads-guilty-walked-fbi-trap/story?id=37582518 |first1=Aaron |last1=Katersky |first2=Jack |last2=Date |first3=Lee |last3=Ferran |title=Russian Spy Pleads Guilty, Walked Into FBI 'Trap' | work=ABC News | access-date=March 12, 2016 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/nyregion/evgeny-buryakov-russian-bank-employee-pleads-guilty-to-conspiring-to-work-as-unregistered-agent.html |title=Bank Employee Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Work as Secret Russian Agent |first=Benjamin |last=Weiser |date=March 11, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times}} He served his sentence at the minimum-security Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio. He was released early, on March 31, 2017, and deported back to Russia on April 5, 2017.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage-idUSKBN1772HL |title=Russian banker convicted in U.S. spy ring deported to Moscow |work=Reuters |date=April 5, 2017 |access-date=April 6, 2017 |first=Nathan |last=Layne |editor-first=Toni |editor-last=Reinhold}}

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