A computer executive and dual U.S. citizen\u00a0was sentenced to 10 years in prison on July 21 for illegally exporting missile systems technology to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alexander Fishenko, founder of ARC Electronics Inc. and an executive at Apex System LLC, will also forfeit $500,000 as part of a plea deal that saw him charged with a 19-count indictment, which included that he acted as an agent of the Russian government within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General, conspired to export and illegally exporting controlled microelectronics to Russia, conspired to launder money and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Department of Justice officials said that from 2008 to 2012, Fishenko and 10 other individuals conspired to obtain state-of-the-art technology from U.S. suppliers and to export it by evading federal licensing controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The technology the conspirators sought to acquire was often used in defense systems like radar and surveillance systems, missile guidance systems and detonation triggers, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between 2002 and 2012, Fishenko’s ARC Electronics shipped $50 million worth of microelectronics to companies that supplied the Russian Ministry of Defense, largely by doctoring false end user and export information the Department of Commerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prosecutors said that ARC products ended up in the hands of a research unit for the Russian FSB internal security agency, another unit that designs air and missile defense systems and a Ministry of Defense unit that specializes in electronic warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of Fishenko’s co-conspirators, five have already pleaded guilty, three have been convicted and another three remain at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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