Russian Foreign Ministry also clarifies citizenship participants disclosed in U.S. criminal network of 11 people accused of spying for Russia. U.S. authorities claim that "Russian intelligence agents" engaged in the illegal export of microelectronic components, which can be used for military purposes, including guidance systems, surveillance, radar systems, and fuzes. In particular, the U.S. has the suspicion that the American chips are mounted on Russian anti-ship missiles and MiG-35.
According to a statement, Attorney Loretta Lynch in Brooklyn, "under the strict control of the government" chips were delivered to Russian intelligence and military institutions. The main suspect in the case of an "agent of the Government of the Russian Federation," the 46-year-old businessman Alexander Fishenko, according to U.S. prosecutors, for these purposes has created two companies - registered in Texas and the Moscow Arc Electronics Apex System. The master Fishenko, born in Kazakhstan, dual citizenship - Russian and American, he received in 2003.
According to U.S. authorities in 2008, with their companies, Alexander Fishenko supplied FSB U.S. technology dual guise of "equipment for traffic signals."
The other members of the criminal network, the 58-year-old Alexander Posobilov, which also has, according to the U.S. Attorney's office, a Russian passport, transferred to Russia, American chips, pointing overhead "fishing boats and nerybolovnoe / ASW equipment."
The third organizer of a criminal network - 37-year-old Victoria Klebanov, wife and co-owner of Alexander Fishenko Arc Electronics. All three face up to 55 years in prison.
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