Russian security officials say they have arrested and charged two brothers with links to British interests.
Ilya Zaslavsky is a manager at the TNK-BP oil joint venture, his brother Alexander head of the British Council's Moscow Alumni club.
The two, who have joint US and Russian citizenship, were gathering classified data for foreign firms, the FSB said.
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British Council work was curtailed last year in a row over the death of ex-security agent Alexander Litvinenko.
'Material proof'
The Moscow offices of the British oil giant were raided by the authorities on Wednesday.
Russia's security agency, the FSB, has confirmed that the raids were related to the Zaslavsky case.
"During the raid, material proof confirming the industrial espionage was found and confiscated," it said in a statement.
This included business cards of foreign military agencies and the CIA, it said.
(BBC)
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