MOSCOW — A Russian court has convicted a reserve colonel of spying on behalf of the United States and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.
Russia’s intelligence agency FSB said Thursday that Vladimir Lazar would be sent to a high-security prison and stripped of his military rank.
Prosecutors alleged Lazar purchased a disk with more than 7,000 images of classified topographical maps of Russia from a collector in 2008 and smuggled it to neighboring Belarus where he gave it to an American agent.
The FSB did not specify when the court’s verdict and sentence were handed down.
