Last Updated: June 06, 2023, 01:39 IST
Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
In 2001, Robert Hanssen pleaded responsible to fifteen counts of espionage and conspiracy in alternate for the federal government not looking for the dying penalty. (Reuters File Photo)
Hanssen, who was sentenced to life in jail for espionage in 2002, had obtained over $1.4 million in money, diamonds, and funds deposited into Russian accounts
Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who confessed to spying for Moscow, has died at a maximum-security facility in the US state of Colorado.
His unresponsive physique was found in a jail in the town of Florence on Monday morning, CNN reported.
“On Monday, June 5, 2023, at roughly 6:55 am, inmate Robert Hanssen was discovered unresponsive on the United States Penitentiary (USP) Florence ADMAX in Florence, Colorado,” the Federal Bureau of Prisons stated in an announcement.
“Responding workers instantly initiated life-saving measures. Staff requested emergency medical providers (EMS) and life-saving efforts continued,” it added.
79-year-old Hanssen, who was sentenced to life in jail for espionage in 2002, had obtained over USD 1.4 million in money, diamonds and funds deposited into Russian accounts.
At the time of his arrest, he resided along with his spouse and six kids in a modest four-bedroom home in suburban Virginia.
Joining the FBI in 1976, Hanssen finally turned essentially the most damaging spy in the US company’s historical past resulting from his entry to categorised info.
Starting in 1985, he transmitted delicate knowledge to Russia and the previous Soviet Union, utilizing the alias “Ramon Garcia” in his correspondence.
As per the FBI, Hanssen compromised quite a few human sources, counterintelligence methods, investigations, categorised authorities paperwork, and essential technical operations.
