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Two Kansas men were arrested today on charges of a multi-year scheme to circumvent U.S. export laws, including illegally exporting aerospace technology to Russia following Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and imposing stricter restrictions on exports to Russia.
According to the indictment, Cyril Gregory Buyanovski, 59, of Lawrence, and Douglas Robertson, 55, of Olate, owned and operated KanRus Trading, which supplied Russian companies with avionics (that is, electronic equipment installed on aircraft) and provided maintenance services. equipment on Russian-made aircraft. Since 2020, the defendants have conspired to circumvent U.S. export laws by hiding and misrepresenting the true end user, value, and final destination of their exported products, as well as transhipping goods through third countries. For example, between November 2020 and February 2021, defendants received avionics, including a computer processor, from a Russian company bearing a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) sticker for use in repairs in the United States. The defendants obscured the true end user and final destination by providing the shipping company with false invoices listing Germany as the final destination.
It is further alleged that on February 28, 2022, the defendants attempted to take avionics equipment to Russia. US authorities confiscated the shipment, and the US Department of Commerce told the defendants that a license was required to export the equipment to Russia. In an April 2022 correspondence, Robertson told a Russian client that “the situation in the US is complex” and that “now is not the right time [for additional documentation and visibility].” illegally transported avionics equipment to Russia through Armenia and Cyprus without obtaining the necessary permits.
The defendants are charged with conspiracy, exporting controlled goods without a license, falsifying and failing to provide electronic export information, and smuggling goods in violation of US law. If found guilty, they face up to 20 years in prison for each count of exporting controlled goods without a license, up to 10 years for each count of smuggling, and up to five years for each count of conspiracy and falsification of export information. A federal district court judge will reach a verdict after considering U.S. sentencing guidelines and other legislative factors.
KleptoCapture Task Force Director Andrew S. Adams, U.S. Attorney for Kansas District Duston J. Slinkard, FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Alan E. Kohler, Jr., Special Agent in Charge Charles Dayub, FBI Kansas City Field Office and U.S. Department of State Chicago Trade Office Aaron Tambrini, special director of the Export Administration.
The case is being investigated by the FBI and the Office of Export Enforcement Enforcement of the US Department of Commerce.
The case is being handled by Assistant US Attorneys Scott Rusk and Ryan Hushka of the District of Kansas and Attorney Adam Barry of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Division of the Department of Homeland Security.
The investigation is being coordinated by the Justice Department’s Kleptocapture Task Force, a multi-agency law enforcement task force tasked with enforcing the comprehensive sanctions, export controls, and economic countermeasures that the United States and its foreign allies and partners have imposed in response to Russia’s unprovoked attacks. Measures of military intervention in Ukraine. The Attorney General announced on March 2, 2022 that a task force led by the Deputy Attorney General will continue to use all of the Department’s tools and powers to combat attempts to evade or undermine the Department’s class action lawsuits. Justice The US government’s response to Russian military aggression.
An indictment is just a statement, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court.
Post time: Mar-03-2023