Three people who allegedly sent $10 million in pivotal military technology to Russia to help the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine were arrested in New York City on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.
Brooklyn resident Salimdzhon Nasriddinov, 52, and Montreal couple Nikolay Goltsev, 37, and Kristina Puzyreva, 32, are accused of working with sanctioned companies tied to Russian forces to ship goods for the construction of weapons platforms and intelligence equipment used in attacks against Ukraine.
Nasriddinov, a dual citizen of Russia and Tajikistan, was arrested at his Brooklyn apartment while Goltsev and Puzyreva, both dual citizens of Russia and Canada, were taken into custody at a Manhattan hotel during a trip to New York Tuesday morning.
The defendants used two Brooklyn-based corporations as fronts to make about 300 shipments of restricted items valued at more than $10 million from US manufacturers to Russia, the feds alleged. Goltsev and Nasriddinov bought the tech and then sent them to intermediary companies in other parts of the world, including Turkey, Hong Kong, India, China and the United Arab Emirates before the goods reached Russia, according to prosecutors. Much of the electronics and integrated circuits were “of the highest concern due to their critical role in the production of advanced Russian precision-guided weapons systems, Russia’s lack of domestic production, and limited global manufacturers,” according to the US Department of Commerce.
“As alleged, these defendants operated a sophisticated export control scheme helping to fuel Russia’s war effort,” US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace said in a statement.
These three were caught. You have to believe there were many, many more.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/31/metro/3-arrested-in-nyc-for-sending-tech-to-russia-to-aid-ukraine-war-effort/
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