[h=1]The 13 Russian nationals charged with interfering in the election: Putin's 'chef', a female spy who came to the US in 2014 to gather intel and a computer whiz who used servers to hide 'troll factory's location'[/h]
Their names, positions and the accusations against them in the indictment, are listed here.
- The group was charged on Friday with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and five aggravated identity theft
- All of the charges are the result of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election
- The ringleader is Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigohzin, a restaurateur and catering mogul known as Putin's personal chef
- He is funded the Internet Research Agency or 'troll factory' where the others worked
- Among them are two women who allegedly came to the US to conduct research in 2014
- Another is a retired police colonel whose name was used as the front for the company
- An IT whiz who allegedly bought US servers to hide posters' location is also named
- Four women and nine men, including Prigohzin, have been charged in total
Their names, positions and the accusations against them in the indictment, are listed here.