Ukraine war: US charges Army major and wife over plot to leak military health data to Russia
- Major Jamie Lee Henry and Dr Anna Gabrielian allegedly tried to aid Putin’s government after the start of Moscow’s invasion
- Prosecutors say Gabrielian told an FBI agent posing as a Russian official that her spouse had information about military training the US had provided to Ukraine
A US Army major and her anaesthesiologist wife have been criminally charged for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about military patients to Russia, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday.
Major Jamie Lee Henry, who was also a doctor at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and spouse Anna Gabrielian, a former anaesthesiologist in Maryland, were charged in an unsealed indictment in a federal court in Maryland with conspiracy and the wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information about patients at the army base.
Jamie Lee Henry is transgender, and in media interviews has used she/her pronouns. Reuters could not immediately determine who is representing them in the case.
The indictment alleges that the plot started after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
Prosecutors said the pair wanted to try to help the Russian government by providing them with data to help the Putin government “gain insights into the medical conditions of individuals associated with the US government and military”.
The two met someone whom they believed was a Russian official, but in fact was actually an FBI undercover agent, the indictment says.