WASHINGTON: A Russian man who had pleaded responsible to US fees that he smuggled massive portions of American-made military-grade microelectronics to Russia was sentenced to 3 years in jail on Wednesday, the US Justice Division mentioned.
Maxim Marchenko, 52, was additionally sentenced to 3 years of supervised launch after he will get out, the Justice Division mentioned in an announcement.
The US and its allies have imposed a number of rounds of sanctions in opposition to Russia to weaken its navy capabilities since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine that started in February 2022.
Marchenko had been based mostly in Hong Kong and was taken into US custody in September. He and two Russian co-conspirators had been accused of utilizing shell firms to hide the fraudulent procurement of OLED micro-displays.
“The transshipment of military-grade microelectronics by means of Hong Kong to Russia helps gasoline the engine of Russia’s struggle machine,” mentioned Matthew Axelrod, assistant secretary for export enforcement on the US Division of Commerce’s Bureau of Business and Safety.
“As we speak’s sentencing is simply the newest instance of our unceasing efforts to focus on and disrupt unlawful Russian procurement networks,” Axelrod added.
Marchenko pled responsible in a New York courtroom in February to at least one depend of cash laundering and one depend of smuggling items from the USA.
Federal prosecutors mentioned OLED micro-displays could possibly be utilized in rifle scopes, night-vision goggles, thermal optics and different weapons programs.
Marchenko and his co-conspirators falsely represented that the dual-use technology – that means it had civilian and navy purposes – was being despatched to China, Hong Kong and elsewhere to be used in electron microscopes for medical analysis, in line with prosecutors.
Maxim Marchenko, 52, was additionally sentenced to 3 years of supervised launch after he will get out, the Justice Division mentioned in an announcement.
The US and its allies have imposed a number of rounds of sanctions in opposition to Russia to weaken its navy capabilities since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine that started in February 2022.
Marchenko had been based mostly in Hong Kong and was taken into US custody in September. He and two Russian co-conspirators had been accused of utilizing shell firms to hide the fraudulent procurement of OLED micro-displays.
“The transshipment of military-grade microelectronics by means of Hong Kong to Russia helps gasoline the engine of Russia’s struggle machine,” mentioned Matthew Axelrod, assistant secretary for export enforcement on the US Division of Commerce’s Bureau of Business and Safety.
“As we speak’s sentencing is simply the newest instance of our unceasing efforts to focus on and disrupt unlawful Russian procurement networks,” Axelrod added.
Marchenko pled responsible in a New York courtroom in February to at least one depend of cash laundering and one depend of smuggling items from the USA.
Federal prosecutors mentioned OLED micro-displays could possibly be utilized in rifle scopes, night-vision goggles, thermal optics and different weapons programs.
Marchenko and his co-conspirators falsely represented that the dual-use technology – that means it had civilian and navy purposes – was being despatched to China, Hong Kong and elsewhere to be used in electron microscopes for medical analysis, in line with prosecutors.
