The ten charges of espionage in the U.S. plead guilty.
New York, July 8 .- The ten detainees in U.S. for spying for Russia, among which is the Peruvian journalist Vicky Pelaez, pleaded guilty today in federal court in New York of the charges against them.
Those accused of creating a network of espionage in this country for Russia, detained for nearly two weeks in different parts of the country, made their pleas one at the, sto credits, first sight that confronted them all together in New York and the authorities told them formal charges hanging over them.
The charges against the detainees, some of which had been investigated since 2000, were of conspiracy, money laundering and failing to notify the Justice Department to be in the U.S. as an agent of a foreign government, but, darkfall gold, authorities did not include the charge espionage.
New York federal court the five men appeared in the New York area and New Jersey, among which are Pelaez and her husband, whose identity is unknown but called himself Juan Lazaro, as well as of those arrested in Boston (Massachusetts) and Alexandria (Virginia).
This is the first sight that confronted, tibia gold, all together since his arrest and after U.S. authorities explained that some of them lived quietly in this country using false identities and that they had received money from Russian intelligence service in exchange for their services.
Besides Pelaez and her husband, the other detainees are Russian Anna Chapman, 28 years, the couple known as Cynthia and Richard Murphy, Mikhail Kutsik (known as Michael Zottoli), Natalia Pereverzev (known as Patricia Mills) and Mikhail Semenko, well as persons under the identity of Tracey Lee Ann Foley and Howard Donald Heathfield.
Each and every one of them pleaded guilty to the crime of conspiracy to operate as a foreign agent in the U.S. without informing the authorities of this country, while eight of them accepted his guilt in the crime of money laundering.
The eleventh accused of belonging to the spy network, Chris Metso, 54 years, and he used a Canadian passport was missing after having been detained in Cyprus and released on bail.