Two of the corporate's administrators threat as much as 20 years in jail.
FAIRFAX, Va. — A Virginia firm and two of its executives have been charged with conspiring to violate the Export Management Reform Act, based on a newly filed grievance. Oleg Nayandin, 54, of Fairfax, and Vitaliy Borisenko, 39, of Vienna, appeared in courtroom Monday.
The grievance states that between March 2022 and June 2023, Eleview Worldwide Inc., a freight forwarding and consolidation enterprise, was run by Nayandin, who’s the proprietor, president and CEO, together with Borisenko, who managed day-to-day operations. They allegedly conspired to illegally export items and know-how from the US to Russia by routing shipments by means of three neighboring nations.
The defendants reportedly operated an e-commerce website the place Russian clients might order US merchandise straight from American retailers. These retailers shipped the objects to Eleview's warehouse in Chantilly, Virginia. The defendants then allegedly mixed these packages and shipped them to Russian clients, usually utilizing different shippers for a charge.
After the Commerce Division tightened export controls in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the defendants started delivery objects to counterfeit finish customers in Turkey, Finland, and Kazakhstan, figuring out that the objects would finally attain clients in Russia . To facilitate these unlawful exports, they allegedly made quite a few false statements to the Commerce Division and different shippers concerning the true recipients of the shipments.
The grievance outlines three particular schemes to evade export controls in numerous nations. Within the Turkey scheme, the defendants allegedly exported roughly $1.48 million value of telecommunications gear to a bogus finish consumer in Turkey, totally conscious that it was destined for a Russian telecommunications firm linked to the Russian authorities, together with the Federal Safety Service (FSB). The gear had army functions, together with its use in bettering communications networks for Russia's warfare effort towards Ukraine.
Within the Finland scheme, the defendants allegedly exported roughly $three.45 million value of products bought by means of the Eleview web site to a fictitious finish consumer in Finland who didn’t really purchase or promote any items. They apparently labeled every package deal with a Russian postal service monitoring quantity to facilitate supply to clients in Russia. That scheme concerned “excessive precedence” objects recognized by the Commerce Division as important to Russian weaponry, together with parts present in Russian drones used to focus on Ukrainian army belongings.
Within the Kazakhstan scheme, the defendants allegedly exported roughly $1.47 million value of products to Russia by means of a Kazakhstan entity purporting to ship items to Russia. These items included dual-use managed objects.
“This firm allegedly used three totally different schemes to illegally ship delicate American know-how to Russia,” mentioned Matthew S. Axelrod, deputy secretary of the Commerce Division's Bureau of Business and Safety. “Immediately's prices towards the corporate and its executives exemplify our dedication to holding accountable those that break our guidelines for revenue.”
If discovered responsible, Nayandin and Borisenko resist 20 years in jail. A federal choose will set their sentences based mostly on the US Sentencing Tips and different components.