Tag: illegal export

US Citizens Arrested for Illegally Exporting Tech to Russia

Two men from Kansas were arrested by U.S. authorities on Thursday, accused of being involved in a scheme to circumvent U.S. export laws that included illegally exporting aviation technology to Russia, after stricter restrictions on exports to Russia were imposed following its invasion of Ukraine. The two men, Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky, 59, of Lawrence, and Douglas…


Chinese National Sentenced to 3.5 Years for Trying to Export Military Boats, Engines to China

A Chinese national was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison on July 16 for attempting to illegally export maritime raiding craft and multi-fuel engines to China. Ge Songtao, 51, of Nanjing, China, had pleaded guilty last year to a scheme to order seven rubber raiding boats that use engines that could operate using gasoline, diesel…