Where she has been
transferred is anybody’s guess so far.
WASHINGTON, May 11.
/TASS/. The Russian citizen Maria Butina, who is currently serving a prison
sentence in the US for espionage, has been transferred from the jail in
Alexandria, Virginia, where she has stayed until now, her attorney Robert
Driscoll told TASS on Friday.
"I have
contacted the prison authorities, she is not there. Where she has been
transferred is anybody’s guess so far," he said.
The US Federal Bureau
of Prisons told TASS earlier that Butina would stay at a detention center in
Alexandria, Virginia, and would be released from custody on November 5, 2019.
Maria Butina, 30, was
arrested in Washington DC on July 15, right before the Helsinki meeting between
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump. The US
Department of Justice said that she was suspected of acting "as an agent
of Russia inside the United States by developing relationships with US persons
and infiltrating organizations having influence in American politics, for the
purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian Federation."
On December 13,
Butina pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the US law governing foreign
agents operating in the country and signed a plea bargain.
Butina went to the
United States for a college course. Last spring she obtained a master’s degree
in international relations from American University.
Source: ITAR-TASS
11-05-2019
