Two Kansas citizens arrested for exporting illegal technology to Russia

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – The US Dept. of Justice arrested two Kansas males Thursday for illegally smuggling merchandise to Russia since 2020.

The Dept. of Justice stated Cyril Buyanovsky, a 59-year-old from Lawrence, and Douglas Roberston, a 55-year-old from Olathe, intentionally working round U.S. export legal guidelines to promote avionics gear to Russian corporations.

A Justice Dept. indictment states Buyanovsky and Robertson hid their exports by falsely reporting their routes by means of different international locations. The Justice Dept. describes a number of such acts, together with when the corporate despatched a processor belonging to Russia’s Federal Safety System to Germany, when it tried to ship an unlicensed cargo to Russia in 2022, and later that yr when it once more with out correct licensing despatched gear by means of Armenia and Cyprus to Russia.

The defendants have been charged with the next:

• conspiracy
• exporting managed items with out a license
• falsifying and failing to file digital export info
• smuggling items opposite to U.S. regulation

If discovered responsible, they face 20 years in jail for every rely of exporting managed items with out a license, as much as 10 years in jail for every rely of smuggling, and as much as 5 years in jail for every rely of conspiracy and falsifying export info. A federal district courtroom decide will decide any sentence after contemplating the U.S. Sentencing Pointers and different statutory elements.

FBI and the U.S. Division of Commerce, Workplace of Export Enforcement are investigating the case. The investigation was coordinated by means of the Justice Division’s Job Pressure KleptoCapture, an interagency regulation enforcement activity pressure devoted to imposing the sweeping sanctions, export controls, and financial countermeasures that the US, together with its overseas allies and companions, has imposed in response to Russia’s unprovoked navy invasion of Ukraine. Introduced by the Legal professional Normal on March 2, 2022, and underneath the management of the Workplace of the Deputy Legal professional Normal, the duty pressure will proceed to leverage all the division’s instruments and authorities to fight efforts to evade or undermine the collective actions taken by the U.S. authorities in response to Russian navy aggression.

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