U.S. goes after alleged pack of Russian agents sending military high-tech to Russia

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/100412-russians-263055.html

By Ellen Messmer
Network World
October 04, 2012

The U.S. government yesterday busted what's alleged to be a 
Russian-agent ring disguised as a Texas-based company illegally 
transferring high-tech electronics to the Russian military.

"As alleged in the indictment, the defendants spun an elaborate web of 
lies to evade the laws that protect our national security. The 
defendants tried to take advantage of America's free markets to steal 
American technologies for the Russian government," said U.S. attorney 
general Loretta Lynch in a statement concerning Alexander Fishenko, 
owner of Texas-based Arc Electronics and Moscow-based Apex System LLC. 
"But U.S. law enforcement detected, disrupted and dismantled the 
defendants' network."

Working with the FBI, the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District 
of New York yesterday indicted Fishenko and 11 others, accusing them of 
procuring sensitive high-tech micro-electronics desired by the Russian 
military and in violation of U.S. export laws, transferring the 
high-tech goods through several contacts to the Russian government, 
following instructions from Russia's federal security service, the FSB.

The U.S. believes Fishenko's operation to send high-tech goods to the 
Russian government included analog-to-digital converters, static random 
access memory chips, microcontrollers and microprocessors. "The receipt 
of U.S.-made, cutting-edge microelectronics has advanced Russia's 
military technological capabilities. NCIS and the Department of the Navy 
have worked closely with the FBI, the Dept. of Justice, and the Dept. of 
Commerce in this investigation due to the potential for significant 
enhancement of Russian naval weapons systems that would result from the 
illegal acquisition of these export-controlled technologies," said 
special agent in charge Timothy Reeves, Naval Criminal Investigative 
Service, Central Field Office, in a statement.

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