Reports: 2 Russians with US citizenship held on secret information charges
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Russian news agencies say two Russians who also hold US citizenship and have connections to the British Council and a British joint-venture oil company have been arrested.
The reports Thursday cite the Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, as saying that the men were detained March 12 while attempting to receive confidential information. One was the head of a project directed by the British Council, according to the RIA-Novosti news agency. The other was an employee of TNK-BP, a major Russian oil company half-owned by Britain's BP. That company's offices were searched by police on Wednesday.
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