Ilya Zaslavsky is a manager at the TNK-BP oil joint venture, his brother Alexander head of the British Council's Moscow Alumni club. The two, who have joint US and Russian citizenship, were gathering classified data for foreign firms, the FSB said.The Moscow offices of the British oil giant were raided by the authorities on Wednesday.
Russia's security agency, the FSB, has confirmed that the raids were related to the Zaslavsky case.
"During the raid, material proof confirming the industrial espionage was found and confiscated," it said in a statement.
This included business cards of foreign military agencies and the CIA, it said. (more)
Ilya had the other "CIA" Card
