Eleview International Inc., a company based in Virginia, along with its owner Oleg Nayandin and senior employee Vitaliy Borisenko, were sentenced for conspiring to violate the Export Control Reform Act by illegally exporting U.S. technology to Russia.
According to court documents, between February 2022 and June 2023, Eleview operated an e-commerce platform that allowed Russian customers to purchase goods from U.S. retailers. These items were shipped to Eleview’s warehouse in Chantilly, Virginia, consolidated, and then sent on to Russia using other freight forwarders as intermediaries. After stricter export controls were implemented by the Department of Commerce following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Nayandin and Borisenko coordinated shipments through countries bordering or near Russia—specifically Turkey, Finland, and Kazakhstan—to circumvent these controls.
The investigation found that Eleview made false statements about the end users and ultimate consignees of the shipments. In one instance involving Turkey, Eleview exported 23 shipments of telecommunications equipment to a false recipient there; these items were intended for a Russian telecommunications company supplying the Russian government and military agencies. The exported equipment had military applications including supporting Russian military communication networks.
In another scheme using Finland as an intermediary country, Eleview sent 83 shipments labeled with Russian postal tracking numbers so they could be easily forwarded to Russian customers. Some of these items included electronic components similar to those found on drones used by Russia in attacks against Ukrainian military targets.
Additionally, approximately 52 shipments passed through Kazakhstan via an entity advertising delivery services into Russia. Many of these exports included dual-use items controlled under U.S. regulations.
As part of the sentencing handed down today in Alexandria federal court, Eleview was fined $125,000 and placed on three years’ probation with requirements for compliance reporting and mandatory export-control training for employees. Nayandin received a three-year prison sentence while Borisenko was sentenced to one year in prison.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce along with Homeland Security Investigations. Prosecution was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gavin R. Tisdale and Sehar F. Sabir, former Assistant U.S. Attorneys Amanda St. Cyr and Dave Peters from the Eastern District of Virginia, as well as Trial Attorney Garrett Coyle from the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.
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