Blogger from Canada has sent US electronics for rockets and UAVs for $ 7 million to the Russian Federation
According to the statement, Erin Kigan, a special agent who participated in the investigation, Christina Puzirev and her accomplices probably purchased and sent American electronics for millions of dollars to support the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine. It was possible to establish that Puzirev is involved in 298 deliveries worth $ 7 million. Christina Puzireva and her husband Mykola Goltsev lived in Montreal (Canada).
Their divider was Salimjon Naidindinov Vasidinov from New York (USA). According to the US Department of Justice, the couple flew to New York from Canada, through the mediation of Nasrillin, purchased electronics through the false companies and then sent it to Russia. Many of the details of the details had serial numbers, which made it possible to easily associate deliveries with all the three persons. The accomplices were arrested at the end of October 2023.
According to the FBI, Puzirev and her husband made big money on the delivery of electronics to Russia. According to the court documents, she complained that she had to open 80 different accounts to keep $ 3 million. "The fingers are already sore to press on the laptop keys," Puzireva wrote in SMS from 2023. During a search at Puzyreva's room at the New York Hotel, the Federals confiscated $ 20,000 in cash.
Vice found Puzyreva's account on Instagram, which was not updated since October 21, 2023 - about 10 days before its arrest. Before that, she taught pictures from Bergamo (Italy), posed on the Brooklyn Bridge (New York). Puzireva has found herself guilty, but the sentence has not yet been adopted. Her husband and Nyriddinov are still awaiting court. "Chips are vital to each country's armed forces, and Russia has spent a lot of its stocks on missiles, drones and other ammunition.
After Moscow has solved the war against Ukraine in 2022, Washington intensified the sanction against it. Despite these trade restrictions, Semiconductors from the United States continued to supply smuggling to the Russian Federation, "the journalists summarized. Earlier, we reported that as a manufacturer "Orlan-10" imports equipment bypassing sanctions. Western civilian electronics are fluent in the Russian Federation and is used for the production of combat drones.