An Israeli citizen was arrested in the US – the suspicion: he smuggled sophisticated equipment to the Russian army

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Seven citizens from around the world were recently arrested in the United States, on suspicion of supplying the Russian military with critical electronic equipment for the war, an indictment was filed against the seven.

One of the detainees is an Israeli citizen named Alexei Breiman, 35 years old from Haifa who has been living with his wife and family in New Hampshire in the United States for the past few years.

In the indictment filed against the Israeli, five Russian citizens and an American citizen, they are accused of being in contact with Russian companies from Moscow that work in cooperation with the secret service in the USA, and they transferred to them critical equipment intended for Russia’s military activity in Ukraine.

According to the suspicion, all seven who were arrested obtained sensitive electronic equipment worth millions of dollars from a number of American manufacturers and suppliers and made sure to send it to Russian end customers.

The Attorney General said: “They worked to establish a smuggling network and transferred sensitive American equipment to the Russian war machine, while fabricating various shipping documents and invoices.”

The media even report that some of what the seven people delivered to them include material intended for a nuclear weapon. The maximum sentence that can be imposed on them is up to 30 years in prison.

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