Sixty-year-old American Kirill Buyanovsky pleaded guilty to charges of illegally supplying aviation equipment to Russia, the US Department of Justice said. RIA News.
Before this, US Deputy Secretary of Commerce Matthew Axelrod reported that two Americans who transferred aviation technology to Russia were arrested without mentioning their names.
Buyanovsky, who lives in Kansas, runs KanRus Trading Company Inc., according to the ministry. The man reportedly pleaded guilty to the acts he was accused of. He said he participated in a “plan to smuggle American aircraft equipment to Russia.”
The Ministry of Justice reported that the businessman faces 25 years in prison. The decision will be announced in March next year.
Before that, Deputy of the Ulyanovsk Legislative Assembly Viktor Ama statedThat the weapons Ukraine receives from its allies and partners will sooner or later reach the United States.
Viktor Bout was arrested in April 2012 after a New York court convicted him of arms smuggling, supporting terrorism through collaboration with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia group, etc. He is known for his accusations and sentencing him to 25 years in prison.
Former advisor to President Joe Biden saidWhen the USA stopped supplying arms to Ukraine.