ペロシ氏のＰＣ窃盗、ロシアに売却計画か　議会乱入の女訴追

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】今月6日に起きた米連邦議会襲撃事件で、ロシアのスパイ組織に売る目的で民主党のナンシー・ペロシ下院議長のノートパソコンを盗んだとされる女が、連邦捜査局（FBI）により訴追された。（写真は資料写真）
　ＦＢＩは１７日夜、首都ワシントンの連邦地方裁判所に提出した訴追状で、「議事堂の敷地内での暴力的な侵入と無秩序な行為」におよんだとして、米ペンシルベニア州在住のライリー・ジューン・ウィリアムズ容疑者の逮捕状を請求。容疑者の行方は分かっていない。
　訴追状によれば、乱入事件の際の複数の写真や映像から、ウィリアムズ容疑者がペロシ下院議長のオフィス近くにいたことが示された。さらに、ＦＢＩはウィリアムズ容疑者の元交際相手と自称する目撃者の話として、「（ロシア対外情報局）ＳＶＲに売る目的で、ウィリアムズはノートパソコンをロシアにいる友人に送る計画を立てていた」と主張した。ただし、売却は何らかの理由により失敗し、ウィリアムズ容疑者はまだノートパソコンを所持しているか、破壊したとされる。
　ペロシ氏のノートパソコンが実際に盗まれたかどうかは明らかにされておらず、ＦＢＩは調査を続けているとしている。訴追状によると、ウィリアムズ容疑者は帰宅後、荷造りをし、母親に数週間出かけると伝えていた。ＦＢＩは「ウィリアムズは逃げたとみられる」としている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/01/19-08:22）

A young woman identified as having taken part in the storming of the US Capitol reportedly stole a laptop belonging to top Democrat Nancy Pelosi and hoped to sell it to a Russian spy agency, according to an FBI criminal complaint.
The complaint, filed late Sunday in US District Court in Washington, seeks the arrest of Riley June Williams of Pennsylvania on grounds including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Her whereabouts are unknown.
Relying on several photos and videos of the chaotic January 6 intrusion, an FBI agent said Williams was seen near the office of House speaker Nancy Pelosi.
A witness, identified in the court document only as W1 but who claimed to be the former romantic partner of Riley June Williams, alleged that Williams planned to send the laptop to a friend in Russia to sell it to the SVR foreign intelligence agency.
That sale fell through for unknown reasons, and Williams still has the computer device or destroyed it, the affidavit says.
It was unclear whether a laptop belonging to Pelosi was actually stolen. The FBI said it was continuing to investigate.
Several videos show the woman believed to be Williams actively directing fellow rioters, urging them upstairs, upstairs, upstairs.
The complaint says Williams' mother in the city of Harrisburg was shown pictures taken in the Capitol and confirmed a thin, bespectacled brown-haired woman in several pictures was her.
She said her daughter had taken a sudden interest in President Trump's politics.
Williams had traveled to Washington with her father, though the two were separated during the chaos that day.
The complaint says that after Williams returned home, she packed a bag and told her mother she was leaving for a couple of weeks.
It appears that Williams has fled, the complaint says.
Scores of those who forced their way into the Capitol have been identified and arrested, usually with the help of photos and videos posted on social media.
The Capitol remains on heavy lockdown ahead of the inauguration Wednesday of Joe Biden as president -- an event the rioters had hoped to prevent.