Moscow says FBI arrested Russian a day after it detained ex-US marine
MOSCOW/NEW YORK: The Russian foreign ministry said on Saturday the United States had detained a Russian citizen, a day after Moscow arrested the former US marine Paul Whelan on suspicion of spying.
Whelan was taken into custody by Russia’s federal security service on December 28. His family have said he is innocent and that he was in Moscow to attend a wedding.
The ministry said the US detained Russian citizen Dmitry Makarenko on December 29 on the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the Pacific, and had transferred him to Florida.
“… Makarenko, born in 1979, has arrived on Saipan Island with his wife, underage children and elderly parents. He was detained by FBI personnel at the airport right after his arrival,” the ministry said.
The US embassy in Moscow could not immediately be reached for comment. A state department spokesman in Washington referred a request for comment to the Department of Justice, which did not immediately respond.
Papers filed in US district court show Makarenko was accused in June 2017 by federal prosecutors of conspiring with another man, Vladimir Nevidomy, to export defense articles including night-vision scopes from the US to Russia without US approval.
– Reuters
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