Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a senior Israeli cybersecurity official, will "vigorously defend himself" after being nabbed in a child sex sting, his attorney told Newsweek.

The U.S. State Department said on Monday the American government played no role in the release of an Israeli official charged with soliciting sex electronically from a minor. Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was one of eight people charged last week following an undercover operation "targeting child sex predators,