New York, Canadian defendants charged in US with exporting technology to Russia
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A Brooklyn man and a Montreal couple were charged on Tuesday in New York with scheming to violate U.S. sanctions by exporting millions of dollars of technology to Russia, including electronics supporting the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
Salimdzhon Nasriddinov, 52; Nikolay Goltsev, 37, and Kristina Puzyreva, 32, were each charged with smuggling, conspiracy to violate sanctions and wire fraud conspiracy.
Prosecutors said Nasriddinov, a Russian-Tajikistan national, was arrested in Brooklyn, with thousands of semiconductors and other electronics recovered from his home.
Goltsev and Puzyreva, who are married Russian-Canadian nationals, were arrested at a Manhattan hotel during a trip to visit Nasriddinov, and about $20,000 in cash was recovered from them, according to prosecutors.
The office of U.S. Attorney Breon Peace in Brooklyn wants the defendants jailed pending trial, saying they could face many years in prison, pose a «serious flight risk» and have «significant» foreign ties.
Lawyers for the defendants could not immediately be identified.
The case is one of many coordinated through the U.S. Department of Justice's Task Force KleptoCapture, which was created to enforce sanctions, export restrictions and other measures in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
U.S. authorities said the scheme began in January 2022, and involved Brooklyn-based SH Brothers and SN Electronics arranging shipments of electronic components and integrated circuits after buying the equipment from U.S. companies.
Authorities said there were more than 300 illegal shipments valued at about $10 million, with some of the electronics later recovered from helicopters, missiles, tanks and other Russian
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