“We saw reports that US citizen Paul Whelan was transferred from Lefortovo to another prison in Russia. We have not received any official notification from the Russian authorities about any such step, despite our repeated recent attempts to gain consular access to Paul, "- Rebecca Ross, spokesman for the embassy in Moscow, wrote on Twitter.
As Ulian's brother David said earlier, the man was transferred to a colony in Mordovia.
On June 15, the court found Whelan guilty of spying against Russia and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security colony.
In December 2018, the FSB announced that the man had been detained during a spy action in Moscow.