Three men arrested for illegal exports to Russia

The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that three men were arrested on charges of illegally exporting military technology to Russia.

   The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that three men were arrested on charges of illegally exporting military technology to Russia.
   Those arrested include Alexey Barysheff of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a naturalized citizen of the United States, and two Russian nationals, Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Karpenko and Alexey Krutilin in Denver, Colo. Federal agents also carried out search warrants at two Brooklyn locations that were allegedly used by Barysheff as front companies – BKLN Spectra and UIP Techno Corp.
   The complaints allege that Barysheff, Karpenko Krutilin, and others were involved in a conspiracy to obtain microelectronics from various U.S. manufacturers and suppliers and export those products to Russia, while evading the U.S. government licensing system set up to control such exports.
   “To induce U.S.-based manufacturers and suppliers to sell them high-tech, export-controlled microelectronics and to evade applicable controls, the defendants and their co-conspirators purported to be employees and representatives of Spectra and UIP Techno and provided false end-user information in connection with the purchase of the items, concealed the fact that they were exporters and falsely classified the goods they exported on records submitted to the Department of Commerce,” the Justice Department said. “To conceal the true destination of the controlled microelectronics from the U.S. suppliers, the defendants and their co-conspirators shipped the items first to Finland and subsequently to Russia.”
   If convicted of the charges, the defendants face up to 25 years in prison and a $1 million fine.