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Criminal Investigation | Dec. 18, 2020

International Trio Indicted in Austin for Illegal Exports to Russia

DCIS

A four-count federal grand jury indictment returned in Austin and unsealed today charges three foreign nationals - a Russian citizen and two Bulgarian citizens - with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Export Control Reform Act (ECRA), and a money laundering statute in a scheme to procure sensitive radiation-hardened circuits from the U.S. and ship those components to Russia through Bulgaria without required licenses.