The U.S. Justice Department said in a statement on September 18 that a Russian national, Maksim Marchenko, who has resided in Hong Kong for years, has been taken to the United States and charged with smuggling U.S.-produced dual-use microelectronics to Russia. According to the statement, the 51-year-old Marchenko and two unidentified Russian citizens are suspected of using Marchenko's three shell companies to illegally delver OLED micro-displays to Russia. The probe was coordinated via the Justice Department's Task Force KleptoCapture, the group that was established to enforce sanctions and other restrictions imposed on Russia over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here.
