“The person arrested is held at MCC [Metropolitan Correctional Center] federal facility in Manhattan,” the spokesperson said.
Russian citizen Viktor Bout, who was extradited to the United States from Thailand in November 2010 and convicted for selling weapons to US agents posing as members of Colombia’s FARC rebel group, had stayed in the same facility in solitary confinement for fifteen months. He was later transferred to a different detention center.
The MCC New York holds almost 750 male and female prisoners of all security levels, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Buryakov, who served as a deputy representative of Russia’s Vnesheconombank in New York, may be facing up to 15 years in prison, according to the US attorney general statement.
On Monday, New York federal prosecutors charged Russian nationals Evgeny Buryakov, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy arrested in the US over a conspiracy to act as unregistered agents of a foreign government in the United States. Sporyshev and Podobnyy remain free as they no longer reside in the United States. Prior to leaving the country, they have been protected by diplomatic immunity, officials said.
