Special Report: How military technology reaches Russia in breach of U.S. export controls
April 29 (Reuters) – By his own account, Ilias Sabirov, a Moscow businessman, had supplied Russia’s military with high-performance computer chips made in the United States for years.
Then, in 2014, Russia seized the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, and the U.S. government began imposing a series of new sanctions and export controls on Russia, including severely restricting sales of such chips.
But that didn’t stop Sabirov from obtaining more, according to U.S. authorities and a Reuters review of Russian customs records.
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