<p>Moscow: A Russian court has sentenced US citizen Eugene Spector to a total of 15 years in jail after convicting him of espionage in a closed-door trial, Russian state news agencies reported on Tuesday.</p><p>Already serving a 3-1/2-year sentence in Russia for bribery, Spector, who was born in Russia and then moved to the US, was charged last August with espionage.</p><p>The details of the espionage case against him have not been made public by state media.</p>.Russia ready to discuss 'normal' relations with US, says foreign ministry.<p>The <em>TASS</em> state news agency said Spector had been given a 13-year-jail sentence for spying which had been added to his existing bribery sentence.</p><p>The presiding judge had decided he should now serve an overall 15-year sentence in a maximum security penal colony as punishment for both cases, TASS said.</p><p>Before his 2021 arrest, Spector served as chairman of the board of Medpolymerprom Group, a company specialising in cancer-curing drugs, state media has said.</p><p>Spector in his first court case had pleaded guilty to helping bribe an assistant to an ex-Russian deputy prime minister.</p>
<p>Moscow: A Russian court has sentenced US citizen Eugene Spector to a total of 15 years in jail after convicting him of espionage in a closed-door trial, Russian state news agencies reported on Tuesday.</p><p>Already serving a 3-1/2-year sentence in Russia for bribery, Spector, who was born in Russia and then moved to the US, was charged last August with espionage.</p><p>The details of the espionage case against him have not been made public by state media.</p>.Russia ready to discuss 'normal' relations with US, says foreign ministry.<p>The <em>TASS</em> state news agency said Spector had been given a 13-year-jail sentence for spying which had been added to his existing bribery sentence.</p><p>The presiding judge had decided he should now serve an overall 15-year sentence in a maximum security penal colony as punishment for both cases, TASS said.</p><p>Before his 2021 arrest, Spector served as chairman of the board of Medpolymerprom Group, a company specialising in cancer-curing drugs, state media has said.</p><p>Spector in his first court case had pleaded guilty to helping bribe an assistant to an ex-Russian deputy prime minister.</p>