Three arrested in alleged scheme to export sensitive U.S. technology to Russia
Source: Reuters
TECHNOLOGY NEWS | Thu Oct 6, 2016 | 3:06pm EDT
Three arrested in alleged scheme to export sensitive U.S. technology to Russia
A U.S. citizen and two Russian nationals were arrested on Thursday on charges relating to the alleged illegal export of sensitive military technology from the United States to Russia, the Justice Department said.
The department said Alexey Barysheff of Brooklyn, New York - a naturalized U.S. citizen - was arrested for illegally exporting controlled technology. Russian nationals Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Karpenko and Alexey Krutilin, were simultaneously arrested on charges of conspiring with Barysheff, it said.
All three were scheduled to appear in court on Thursday afternoon.
In its complaint, the government alleged the defendants had engaged in a conspiracy to obtain microelectronics from manufacturers and suppliers in the United States and export them to Russia while evading government controls on high-tech exports.
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