— Federal officials have obtained a guilty plea in an international money laundering and murder-for-hire case involving Russian nationals living in Raleigh.

Alexander Polyakov pleaded guilty to lying on an immigration document. As part of his plea, he was sentenced to the time he has already spent in jail and was able to walk free.

Polyakov was arrested around the same time the FBI raided a north Raleigh mansion and arrested Leonid and Tatyana Teyf last December.

Leonid Teyf faces money laundering, bribery and murder-for-hire charges in the case.

Authorities said he tried to bribe an agent of the Department of Homeland Security to investigate and deport the son of his housekeeper who he thought was having an affair with his wife. According to documents in the case, Leonid Teyf offered the DHS agent a boat, a vehicle or cash as an incentive to investigate and to pay the agent $25,000 for an "investigation that would result in the arrest and deportation" of the son.

In February 2018, Leonid Teyf told a federal informant that he believed his wife had been involved in a romantic relationship and that he wanted to pay someone to get the housekeeper's son to admit to the affair and then have him overdose on drugs.

Later, he said he wanted the son deported because, if he was back in Russia, “he would be buried already," authorities have said.

Leonid Teyf remains in jail without bond. Tatyana Teyf was released from jail in March.

The cases against both are still pending.