Moscow Defiant On Sentencing Of US Citizen On Trumped-Up Espionage Charges – Analysis

By Pavel Felgenhauer*

Paul Whelan (50)—a Canadian-born United States resident, Marine Corps veteran (discharged for bad conduct) and director of a security firm—was arrested in Moscow, in December 2018, by the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) counter-intelligence arm and charged with espionage. Whelan was incarcerated...