(Montreal) A Montrealer was sentenced to 40 months in prison by an American federal court for having organized a scheme aimed at illegally exporting electronic components worth several million dollars to Russia for military purposes.
Posted at 1:24 p.m.
Nikolay Goltsev, 38, used two Brooklyn, New York, companies to purchase electronic devices from American manufacturers and ship them to Russian companies that are under U.S. government sanctions.
Some of the equipment was later found in Russian weapons platforms and signals intelligence equipment seized in Ukraine.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Wednesday that Goltsev profited from the sale of U.S. technology to “advance Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine.”
-The US Department of Justice estimated that one of the Brooklyn companies made hundreds of shipments to Russia, worth more than $7 million. According to American justice, the government seized approximately US$1.68 million in connection with this scheme.
Goltsev’s wife, Kristina Puzyreva, a Canadian of Russian origin, was sentenced in July to 24 months in prison for conspiring to launder the proceeds of the export scheme.
Another co-defendant, Salimdzhon Nasriddinov, is awaiting sentencing.
