Puerto Vallarta (PVDN) – Héctor Alejandro Cabrera, the only Mexican accused of spying for Russia on US territory, will be released and deported to Mexico in a few weeks, despite having been sentenced in 2022 to serve 4 years in prison.
The scheduled release will be on July 16 from the FDC Miami penitentiary, where he was incarcerated after being sentenced by a federal judge after a long two-year trial.
However, according to documents, Héctor Alejandro will be deported by the US authorities, which has raised concerns regarding his safety in Mexico, in his small town of El Espinal, Oaxaca.
“When the sentence is fulfilled, he will be subject to expulsion from the United States pursuant to Section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Defendant has waived the opportunity to seek any and all forms of relief and protection from removal,” according to documents filed.
The majority of residents from his hometown have been supportive, since he was arrested, they organized collections to pay for all his legal representation expenses. Ahead of the elections, some believe that when he is released, he would be the ideal candidate for mayor of Espinal. “This here is going to be a boom of happiness,” they say.
The United States Attorney’s Office revealed an alleged story that reported that the 35-year-old man was married in Oaxaca and had two children.
However, the hidden story was that the Mexican had also married a woman in Russia and then they had gone to live in Germany, where they lived when Cabrera went to work in Singapore. When they tried to return to Germany, Russian customs officials did not allow them to return. That’s how they pressured him to work undercover for the Russian government.
From that moment on, Cabrera’s mission would have been to take pictures of a vehicle owned by a US government agent in a residential area of Miami. The scientist was not discreet and the government took notice, for which ended in his arrest in February 2020, when he was about to board a flight to Mexico City.
In June 2022 and after pleading guilty, he was finally sentenced to spend 4 years in federal prison, since then the US government had not disclosed his release date, until now, with a release scheduled on July 16, 2022.
Puerto Vallarta (PVDN) - Héctor Alejandro Cabrera, the only Mexican accused of spying for Russia on US territory, will be released and deported to . . .
