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Businessman faces 20 years in prison over accusations of illicit chip exports to Russia
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/russia_chip_exports_arrest/
A businessman has been arrested in the US and charged with unlawfully exporting sensitive technology including semiconductors to a sanctioned business with ties to Russia's military and intelligence agencies.
Court documents filed with the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York identify the man as Ilya Kahn, a 66-year-old citizen of the US, Israel, and Russia, and listed as a resident of Brooklyn, New York, and Los Angeles.
Kahn was arrested for his alleged involvement in a long-running scheme to acquire and unlawfully export sensitive technology from the US for the benefit of a Russian business, a semiconductor company with close ties to the Russian government.
That business, Joint Stock Company Research and Development Center ELVEES (Elvees), was added to the US Commerce Department's Entity List in March 2022. It was then sanctioned by the Treasury Department in September 2022 for facilitating Russia's military and its invasion of Ukraine. [ ... ]
