Russia has formally charged U.S. citizen Paul Whelan with espionage, Moscow’s Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.
“An indictment has been presented. Whelan dismisses it,” an unnamed source told the publication.
Russia’s Federal Security Service, the FSB, revealed earlier this week that Whelan had been detained in Moscow on Dec. 28 on accusations of spying. Thursday’s reports are the first news of him being formally charged.
Whelan, a former Marine and security executive from Michigan, had been traveling to Russia for a wedding, according to members of his family. They have fiercely pushed back on Moscow’s allegations that he was conducting espionage.
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#BREAKING: Russia formally charges American citizen with spying https://t.co/AkiihKeLwC pic.twitter.com/YCEMh60xwY
— The Hill (@thehill) January 3, 2019
I strongly encourage you to take NOTHING the Kremlin says about the Whelan case, officially or through its mouthpieces, seriously without independent confirmation. You are otherwise drinking #deza with a firehose.
— John Schindler (@20committee) January 3, 2019
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