The Bureau of Industry and Security reports that a Canadian man has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for conspiring to commit export control violations.
According to a BIS press release, the man used two U.S. companies to unlawfully source, purchase, and export hundreds of shipments of dual-use electronics from U.S. manufacturers to sanctioned end-users in Russia. The items were shipped from the U.S. to a variety of intermediary front companies in other countries, including Turkey, Hong Kong, India, China, and the United Arab Emirates, where they were rerouted to Russia. Some have since been found in seized Russian weapons platforms and signals intelligence equipment in Ukraine.
BIS notes that this case was coordinated through the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, an interagency law enforcement initiative co-led by the departments of Justice and Commerce designed to target illicit actors, protect supply chains, and prevent critical technology from being acquired by authoritarian regimes and hostile nation states.
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