Three people were charged Monday in connection with a Cold War-style Russian spy ring that tried to recruit New York City residents as intelligence sources, authorities said. Evgeny Buryakov, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy conspired to gather economic intelligence on behalf of Russia, including alleged information about U.S. sanctions against the country, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. Monday's charges are linked to Buryakov's alleged covert work on behalf of Russia's foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, according to a criminal complaint. Three people were charged Monday in connection with a Cold War-style Russian spy ring that tried to recruit New York City residents as intelligence sources. One of them Evgeny Buryakov, 39, masked this work by posing as a banker for Russia's Vnesheconombank, (pictured) according to the complaint and the bank's website
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Evgeny Buryakov, posed as an employee in the Manhattan office of a Russian bank, according to prosecutors
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Sporyshev and Podobnyy have not been arrested and no longer live in the United States but had diplomatic immunity while they were in the country
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Evidence includes Buryakov meeting with an FBI agent posing as a wealthy investor who hoped to develop casinos in Russia
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