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US to Arraign 11 with Spying for Russia

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Ten alleged Russian spies in U.S. custody are scheduled to appear in court Thursday to enter their pleas.

They will all appear at a federal court in New York City, where charges against them were filed.

Robert Baum, a lawyer for suspect Anna Chapman, says there may be a quick resolution to the case.  He suggested his client might accept a deal to plead guilty and be deported.

Earlier, the family of a Russian scientist jailed for spying for the United States said he may be swapped for the U.S. spy suspects.

People close to Igor Sutyagin say he has already been moved from a prison in northern Russia to a Moscow jail. They say he will then go to Britain.

Sutyagin's brother tells VOA the spy swap is the idea of the United States.

U.S. and Russian officials have not commented.

Wednesday, U.S. prosecutors formally charged the defendents with conspiring to act as secret agents. Nine of them were also charged with money laundering.

An 11th suspect remains at large, after being arrested in Cyprus and disappearing when he was released on bail.

All the accused quietly lived and worked in the United States while allegedly trying to gather information on U.S. nuclear weapons and politics for Russian intelligence.

Sutyagin, a Russian nuclear expert, was arrested in 1999 and accused of passing secrets to a British company that Russia claimed was a front for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2004. Sutyagin's father says his son is not a spy and never pleaded guilty.
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