New Yorker Nomma Zarubina, suspected of working for the Russian intelligence services, has changed her testimony in court, according to the author of the USlegalnews Telegram channel, lawyer Igor Slabykh.
According to the minutes of the hearing, published by him, Zarubina pleaded guilty to two episodes: reporting false information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and during the application for immigration to the United States.
The announcement of the verdict is scheduled for 11 June. The court refused to release Zarubina on bail.
The charges are that in conversations with FBI officials Zarubina repeatedly denied her contacts with Russian intelligence services.
Nomma Zarubina-35-year-old Russian citizen. In November 2024, the United States accused her of working for the Russian intelligence services. According to the FBI version, the girl was recruited by the Russian FSB to establish contacts in the US among journalists, military officers, employees of think tanks and university professors who studied Russia, and to convince them of the “Russian vision of the situation”. On social media, she presented herself as a political expert.
The New York prosecutor’s office later added more charges to the FBI’s file against Zarubina, including lying on a U.S. immigration application.
Leonid Volkov, an associate of deceased Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, said he saw Zarubina at a meeting with supporters in January 2023 in Washington. “(Zarubina) came to the meeting one of the first and took one of the best seats, but she sat on her phone the whole meeting and showed no interest at all in what I was talking about. But as soon as the meeting was over, she was the first to jump up to me and ask for selfies. And immediately after the selfies she ran away,” he wrote.
Russian woman suspected in the US of working for the FSB has partially pleaded guilty