Eleven Charged With Illegal Military Exports to Russia
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The U.S. charged 11 people with involvement in an illegal scheme to export high-tech microelectronics to Russian military and intelligence agencies.
The case is “the first-ever criminal prosecution of a large-scale Russian military procurement network operating within the United States,” said Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, New York. A federal indictment dated Sept. 28 was unsealed today.