Bulgarian National Extradited to US After Alleged Export Violations
Bulgarian national Milan Dimitrov appeared Aug. 12 in a federal court for allegedly engaging in a scheme to violate U.S. export controls, DOJ announced. Extradited from Greece, Dimitrov is charged with conspiring with Russian citizen Ilias Sabirov and Bulgarian national Dimitar Dimitrov to procure "sensitive radiation-hardened integrated circuits" from the U.S. and export them to Russia via Bulgaria (see 2012210013).
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From 2014 to 2018, the conspirators allegedly used Bulgarian firm Multi Technology Integration Group EEOD (MTIG) to receive the controlled items and transship them to Russia. Sabirov heads two Russian companies, Cosmos Complect and OOO Sovtest Comp., while also controlling MTIG. Both Dimitrovs worked at Cosmos Complect and MTIG, DOJ said.
In 2014, the conspirators allegedly met with a radiation-hardened circuits supplier in Texas, where they were told they couldn't ship the goods to Russia due to U.S. controls. To circumvent that, Sabirov established MTIG in Bulgaria to buy the circuits. Over $1 million in parts were eventually shipped to Russia, DOJ said.
Milan Dimitrov faces two counts of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, one count of money laundering and one count of making false statements to the Commerce Department in violation of the Export Control Reform Act.