2 Americans arrested for allegedly sending aviation technology to Russia

2 United States nationals were detained in Kansas City on Thursday for supposedly sending out United States air travel innovation to Russia, the Justice Department revealed.

Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky, 59, and Douglas Robertson, 55, are dealing with a number of charges, consisting of exporting managed items without a license, falsifying and stopping working to submit electronic export details, and smuggling items contrary to United States law.

Their arrest is the most current relocation by the Justice Department’s Job Force KleptoCapture, comprised of federal district attorneys, detectives and experts, which has actually worked for the previous year to wage a worldwide project versus cash laundering and sanctions evasion in assistance of the Russian federal government. Its work has actually led to over 30 indictments versus approved fans of the Kremlin and Russian military, according to the Justice Department.

The 2 guys’s US-based KanRus Trading Business offered and set up Western electronic devices for aircrafts, according to district attorneys, and supposedly offered devices to Russian business and supplied repair work services for Russian airplanes. To navigate United States sanctions, district attorneys state Buyanovsky and Robertson hid who their customers were, lied about just how much items expense and were paid through foreign savings account.

After Russia’s war in Ukraine started in 2015, the United States federal government enforced extra sanctions on deliveries to Russia. Buyanovsky and Robertson discussed their alternatives for continuing to send out deliveries to a minimum of one customer in Russia, district attorneys state, consisting of by sending out deliveries through third-party nations.

A KanRus delivery in February 2022 was flagged by the Department of Commerce since it did not have the appropriate licensing, according to the indictment.

Right after, Robertson, who is a business pilot, supposedly informed a Russia-based customer that “things are made complex in the U.S.A.” which billings required to be less than $50,000 since otherwise there would be “more documentation and presence,” including that “this is NOT the correct time for either.” A delivery to that Russian customer was later on sent out through Laos, district attorneys state.

Legal representatives for Buyanovsky and Robertson are not yet noted.