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\"\"Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, 36, a Mexican citizen who had resided in Singapore and spent significant time in Russia, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court for being a Russian agent, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to court documents, since 2019, Fuentes acted under the direction and control of someone he believed to be a Russian government official.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instructed by this Russian official, Fuentes arranged for an intermediary to lease a unit in a residential building in Miami-Dade County where a U.S. person, who had previously provided information about the Russian government to the U.S. government, resided.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Furthermore, at the direction of the same Russian official, Fuentes traveled to Miami in February 2020 to obtain the license plate number and parking location of the U.S. person\u2019s car to provide to the Russian official upon his next trip to Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuentes\u2019s travel companion, at his request, took a photo of the U.S. person\u2019s car. A WhatsApp message from Fuentes\u2019s travel companion to Fuentes contained a close-up photograph of the specified U.S. person\u2019s car. <\/span><\/p>\n

The manner in which Fuentes communicated with the Russian government official and his undertakings, in this case, is consistent with the tactics of the Russian intelligence services for spotting, assessing, recruiting, and handling intelligence assets and sources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuentes had not notified the U.S. Attorney General, as required by law, that he was acting in the United States as an agent of the Russian government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuentes pleaded guilty in February 2022. <\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks sentenced Cabrera Fuentes. The judge included an order that the defendant is deported to Mexico promptly upon his release from confinement.<\/span><\/p>\n

FBI and CBP investigated the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Thakur of the Southern District of Florida and Trial Attorney Matthew J. McKenzie of the National Security Division\u2019s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section prosecuted the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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