Extradited Bulgarian national charged with alleged illicit US tech exports to Russia
A Bulgarian national extradited from Greece faces an indictment in the US for an alleged conspiracy ‘to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) in a scheme to procure sensitive radiation-hardened integrated circuits from the United States and illegally export those components to Russia through Bulgaria without the required licenses from the U.S. government.’
The indictment alleges that between at least May 2014 and May 2018 Milan Dimitrov, 50, and two accomplices used the Bulgarian company Multi Technology Integration Group EEOD (‘MTIG’) to receive export-controlled items from the United States and transship them to Russia without the required licences, the Department of Justice (‘DOJ’) said, 12 August.
It said the parts were shipped to Bulgaria in 2015, and MTIG soon thereafter transshipped them to companies in Russia and paid more than $1 million for the items.
Dimitrov is charged with two counts of IEEPA violations, one count of money laundering, and one count of making false statements to the Department of Commerce in violation of the ECRA. Each count in the indictment carries a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
Two other accomplices, Russian national Ilias Sabirov and Bulgarian Dimitar Dimitrov remain at large and have been charged in the same indictment in December 2020 with two counts of IEEPA violations and one count of money laundering.
