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Dimitar Dimitrov and Milan Dimitrov on the US State Department blacklist.
The United States Department of Justice has brought charges against two Bulgarian citizens: Dimitar Dimitrov and Milan Dimitrov, who are blacklisted by the Ministry of Commerce. They have violated the embargo against Russia by illegally exporting strategic technology from the United States. It involves purchases and exports to Russia without permission from the US government of integrated circuits, the main application of which is in spacecraft, military equipment and medical electronics.
Russian Ilyas Sabirov, who is also blacklisted, is also charged. This is stated in a statement from the United States Department of Justice, which is also the Office of the Attorney General, TASS reported.
According to the FBI investigation, the three “used the Bulgarian company Multi Technology Integration Group EOOD – MTIG to receive goods controlled by the United States and send them to Russia.” “In accordance with US export control laws, these products cannot be shipped to Russia without permission from the US government,” the statement said. The case will be heard in court in Austin, Texas.
Two of the charges against the Russian and the two Bulgarians are related to violations of two US export control laws, and there is another for money laundering “by purchasing radiation resistant dual-use ICs from the United States and shipping their components to Russia, through Bulgaria without the necessary licenses ”.
The Justice Ministry also accuses Milan Dimitrov of “perjury”. “Each count provides up to 20 years in federal prison after sentencing,” the state ministry said.
The statement said Sabirov, 48, runs two Russian companies, Cosmos Komplekt and Sovtest Komp, and also controls MTIG.
Dimitar Dimitrov, 70, and Milan Dimitrov, 46, worked for Sabirov at Cosmos Komplekt and MTIG. The indictment also alleges that Sovtest Comp transferred more than $ 1 million to MTIG for controllable components in the US In turn, the Bulgarian company ordered, following Sabirov’s instructions, additional electronic components for more than $ 1.7 million, whose export is controlled by the state.
On Friday, the United States Department of Commerce announced that the three companies in question and their affiliates Dimitar Dimitrov, Ilyas Sabirov, Mariana Gargova and Milan Dimitrov were on the list “for attempts to acquire and re-export US products for anti-interest activities. National Security and Foreign Policy of the United States “.
In the Bulgarian Commercial Registry the company is listed under the name MTIG EOOD and the sole owner of its capital is Mariana Gargova. It was registered in 2014 with a capital of 10,000 BGN and its latest financial report for 2016 shows a loss of activity, although not large, 471 thousand BGN. Yesterday no one answered the company’s phones.
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