US ‘Kleptocapture’ Group Seeks Russia Sanction Evaders Worldwide
- Task force was created after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
- Russia barred from obtaining at least 50 high-tech items
Digital avionics and flight instrumentation.
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Latvian authorities have arrested and plan to extradite to the US a local man over his work for a Kansas-based company in the alleged smuggling of avionics equipment through third countries destined for Russia, in violation of US export controls, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Oleg Chistyakov allegedly worked with US citizens Cyril Buyanovsky and Douglas Robertson, acting as the broker of their company KanRus Trading Company Inc., the department said Thursday in announcing a superseding indictment with charges against him.