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As the Afro-Russian poet Pushkin aptly predicted in his "The Bronze Horseman", one dawn of Russian-speaking crime in the United States is in a hurry to replace another. The February federal cases in the New Jersey Prosecutor's Office, where 34-year-old Russian Vitaly Kovalev was accused of hacking, and in the Boston court, where the jury found 42-year-old Muscovite Vladislav Klyushin guilty of insider trading in stocks, did not have time to recede.
No sooner had the case of 47-year-old Muscovite and Russian citizen Ilya Balakayev, whom the Brooklyn federal prosecutor's office accuses in absentia of smuggling from the United States to Russia and North Korea (DPRK), as well as repairing "electronic equipment commonly used in counterintelligence operations," begin when on March 2, 59-year-old naturalized US citizen Kirill Buinovsky was arrested in Kansas, and 47-year-old Brooklyn resident Boris Aminov was arrested in New York. The first is accused of illegally supplying sophisticated aviation technology to Russia after that country's invasion of Ukraine, and the second is accused of deceiving the Medicare program by illegally selling AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) drugs on the black market, aka AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). The same one about whom in the former Soviet Union they said that "if uncle and uncle sleep, then the uncle will have AIDS). More often it is called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), which causes AIDS.
But let's start with Buinovsky, whose American name is Cyril Gregory, that is, Kirill Grigorievich, he lives in the city of Lawrence in the northeast of Kansas and, together with 55-year-old American Douglas Robertson from the city of Olafe, 30 miles from Lawrence, owns and manages the company KanRus Trading. This company, as its name implies, supplies Western-made aviation equipment to Russian companies and, as noted in a press release from the prosecutor's office, "provides services for the repair of equipment used in the Russian aircraft industry." It is specified that Kirill Buinovsky was the president of KanRus and previously worked as an engineer at an aircraft manufacturing enterprise, and Robertson was a civil aviation pilot. It is known that FBI agents arrested Buinovsky and Robertson on the morning of March 2 at the New Century airport four miles from Olafe and took them to a local prison, but they are not listed in the database of federal prisons.
The 29-page indictment, with which the grand jury agreed, outlines that since 2020, Buinovsky and Robertson have plotted to get rich in circumvention of export laws by "hiding and changing the true end customers, as well as the cost and final destination of their exports by shipment through third countries." For example, "from November 2020 to February 2021, the defendants received aviation equipment for repair in the United States, including a computer processor with a tag of the FSB of Russia," that is, Buinovsky and Robertson did in Kansas about the same thing as Balakayev did in Moscow. On February 28, 2022, that is, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the tightening of anti-Russian sanctions, the defendants again tried to export an order to Russia and were notified by the Department of Commerce that a license was required to do so. In April, Robertson told a Russian customer in an email that "everything is difficult in the United States" and "now is NOT the time." In May, June and July 2022, the press release continues, "the defendants illegally transported 'avionics' to Russia through Armenia and Cyprus without obtaining the necessary licenses.
The indictment, without specifying, states that one the customer of the accused was the Moscow-based Russian Company-1, which sells aviation spare parts, and its head Individual-1. The other customer was the Krasnodar Russian Company-2 and its engineer Individual-2, and the third was also the Moscow Russian Company-3, with the intermediary Individual-3 connecting the defendants with the counter. The case also indicates the "German Company-1" located in the German town of Schöneck, through which aviation equipment manufactured or repaired in the United States went to Russia. Another intermediary company is the Yerevan-based Armenian Company-1. Like the "absentee" Balakayev, Buinovsky and Robertson face 20 years in prison, and if they add up the sentences on all charges, they will not sit out like this, but until the court's decision, both are considered innocent.
With Boris Aminov, everything is simpler, and after his arrest in Brooklyn on March 2, he was taken to Manhattan federal court and, under lawyer Steve Zissou, was accused of defrauding the Medicare program and other medical assistance programs for a total of at least $ 15 million, after which he was released on bail of a million dollars real estate with two guarantors. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein was indicted and Judge Mary Kay Vicosil, 64, who was nominated by President Trump in 2019, is assigned to hear the case. Together with Aminov, four more are involved in the case, judging by the surnames, Latin Americans. "Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is believed to have been involved in a scam to get rich by defrauding Medicaid and other federal insurance programs by depriving HIV patients of their medications.
The defendants allegedly made millions of dollars by submitting fake insurance policies, paying illegal kickbacks, and selling HIV drugs. Today's arrests make it abundantly clear to those who line their pockets by lying to the federal agencies that protect the health of low-income people and profit from vulnerable members of society that they cannot escape. I have read the cliché about "line the pockets" in the press releases of our federal prosecutor's offices hundreds of times, but it works. Following Prosecutor Williams, FBI New York Chief Michael Driscoll also reiterated that "the defendants not only cheated Medicaid and other federal insurance programs," but "profited from vulnerable, low-income HIV patients" and "the FBI will always do whatever is necessary to protect the integrity of health care programs like Medicare and hold accountable those who use these programs."
Together with Boris Aminnov, 41-year-old Christy Corvalan, 24-year-old David Fernandez, 22-year-old Desiree Baez and 27-year-old Crystal Medina are living in the case. Carvalan owned two pharmacies in the Bronx and, according to the prosecution, "bought medicines from Aminov on the black market, which then went to HIV patients, and paid them to sell these drugs back to her pharmacies, 'thereby encouraging patients to refuse to take the drugs they were prescribed to treat their HIV infections.'" Fernández, Baez and Medina worked in Corvalán pharmacies and participated in this scam, paying drug sellers. Simply put, in Christie Carvalan pharmacies, patients with the HIV virus received expensive drugs free of charge under the Medicare program, the bills for which were paid by this program. They sold the received medicines for cashIn addition, the scam went on for years, enriching its participants, but mainly Christy Carvalan. The indictment calls Boris Aminov "one of the main suppliers" of HIV drugs to Kristi Corvalan's pharmacies. In the case, there is an exchange of text messages intercepted by FBI agents on May 10, 2021. "Beak-20," Christie writes, of course in English, "Odefsy-10 and Tiwi-10... But for how much and for how long." Boris replies that "750, 800 and 400 ... in a week." The transcript explains that Corvalan was interested in how much Amin would sell her 20 vials of Bictavy pills, 10 vials of Odefsey, and 10 vials of Tivicay, and he named the price. The prosecution explains that the Medicare program pays the pharmacy for these drugs from 2 to 3.5 thousand dollars per bottle.
The indictment says that "the defendants spent the money received by the scam ... millions of dollars in expensive cars, real estate, designer clothes and jewelry." In particular, Kristi Corvalan bought a Mercedes-Benz Maybach worth about $245 thousand in 2021, and in fact there is a photo of her sitting on the hood of this car. On my own behalf, I will add that Christie is a namesake, but not a relative of the late Secretary General of the Chilean Communists, who was released from prison in 1976 in exchange for the Soviet political prisoner dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, whom the newspaper Pravda called "a malicious hooligan engaged in anti-Soviet activities" before his arrest. An underground ditty appeared about this in the USSR with the words: "They exchanged the hooligan for Luis Corvalan."
Not long ago, Leo Shalit, a Russian-speaking lawyer, introduced me to a similar but civil lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court by Gilead Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in California. The company, which specializes in HIV/AIDS drugs, accuses more than 100 defendants of "knowingly and knowingly manufacturing, selling, advertising, and distributing Gilead Sciences' counterfeit medicines, including an HIV drug." The defendants are pharmacies and individuals, among whom I distinguished Boris Abramov, Peter Chaim, Samuel Yakubov, Bakhtiyar Nabiev, Tariel Begiyev, Alex Gelbinovich, Stephen Diamantstein and Pavel Lashkevich, as well as Hakob Kolodjian and Lorik Papayan. Those who want to know the details are referred to the 177 pages of the case # 21-cv-4106.
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Latvian citizen accused of circumventing anti-Russian sanctions extradited to the United States
Latvian citizen Oleg Chistyakov was extradited by the authorities of this country to the United States, where charges were brought against him, together with alleged accomplices, of supplying complex American-made aviation equipment to Russia subject to export restrictions.
The trial in the case of Chistyakov will take place in the federal court of the District of Kansas, where these charges were officially brought against him, follows from the message of the US Department of Justice.
According to court documents, Chistyakov, 55, allegedly conspired with U.S. citizens Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky, 61, and Douglas Edward Robertson, 56, both residents of Kansas.
The purpose of the defendants in the case, according to the prosecutor's office, was to ensure the sale, repair and supply of American-made avionics to customers in Russia and in other countries operating Russian-made aircraft, including the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB).
Buyanovsky and Robertson were charged back in March 2023, both were detained and pleaded guilty.
It is expected that the verdict to Buyanovsky will be handed down on November 14, Robertson - on October 3, the report specifies.
According to prosecutors, Chistyakov, operating from Latvia, in many cases through his UAE-registered company RosAero FZC, collaborated with Buyanovsky and Robertson through their U.S. company, KanRus Trading Company Inc. (KanRus), to circumvent U.S. export control laws.
Chistyakov allegedly acted as a broker for KanRus, collecting information on stock quotes, negotiating prices and delivery terms, and facilitating payments between KanRus and clients in Russia. It is alleged that Chistyakov and his alleged accomplices tried to conceal their illegal activities by issuing false invoices, transshipment of goods through third countries, including, for example, Germany and the UAE, using bank accounts in third countries such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the UAE, as well as exporting goods to intermediary companies, which then re-exported these goods to their final destinations.
According to the US Department of Justice, a number of legal entities and individuals involved in Chistyakov's activities, considered illegal by the prosecution, were included in December 2023 by the US Department of Commerce in the list of persons subject to special licensing requirements in relation to transactions made by such persons.
Chistyakov is charged with conspiracy, violation of the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA), smuggling and money laundering. If the charges are confirmed in court, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $ 1 million.
No sooner had the case of 47-year-old Muscovite and Russian citizen Ilya Balakayev, whom the Brooklyn federal prosecutor's office accuses in absentia of smuggling from the United States to Russia and North Korea (DPRK), as well as repairing "electronic equipment commonly used in counterintelligence operations," begin when on March 2, 59-year-old naturalized US citizen Kirill Buinovsky was arrested in Kansas, and 47-year-old Brooklyn resident Boris Aminov was arrested in New York. The first is accused of illegally supplying sophisticated aviation technology to Russia after that country's invasion of Ukraine, and the second is accused of deceiving the Medicare program by illegally selling AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) drugs on the black market, aka AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). The same one about whom in the former Soviet Union they said that "if uncle and uncle sleep, then the uncle will have AIDS). More often it is called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), which causes AIDS.
But let's start with Buinovsky, whose American name is Cyril Gregory, that is, Kirill Grigorievich, he lives in the city of Lawrence in the northeast of Kansas and, together with 55-year-old American Douglas Robertson from the city of Olafe, 30 miles from Lawrence, owns and manages the company KanRus Trading. This company, as its name implies, supplies Western-made aviation equipment to Russian companies and, as noted in a press release from the prosecutor's office, "provides services for the repair of equipment used in the Russian aircraft industry." It is specified that Kirill Buinovsky was the president of KanRus and previously worked as an engineer at an aircraft manufacturing enterprise, and Robertson was a civil aviation pilot. It is known that FBI agents arrested Buinovsky and Robertson on the morning of March 2 at the New Century airport four miles from Olafe and took them to a local prison, but they are not listed in the database of federal prisons.
The 29-page indictment, with which the grand jury agreed, outlines that since 2020, Buinovsky and Robertson have plotted to get rich in circumvention of export laws by "hiding and changing the true end customers, as well as the cost and final destination of their exports by shipment through third countries." For example, "from November 2020 to February 2021, the defendants received aviation equipment for repair in the United States, including a computer processor with a tag of the FSB of Russia," that is, Buinovsky and Robertson did in Kansas about the same thing as Balakayev did in Moscow. On February 28, 2022, that is, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the tightening of anti-Russian sanctions, the defendants again tried to export an order to Russia and were notified by the Department of Commerce that a license was required to do so. In April, Robertson told a Russian customer in an email that "everything is difficult in the United States" and "now is NOT the time." In May, June and July 2022, the press release continues, "the defendants illegally transported 'avionics' to Russia through Armenia and Cyprus without obtaining the necessary licenses.
The indictment, without specifying, states that one the customer of the accused was the Moscow-based Russian Company-1, which sells aviation spare parts, and its head Individual-1. The other customer was the Krasnodar Russian Company-2 and its engineer Individual-2, and the third was also the Moscow Russian Company-3, with the intermediary Individual-3 connecting the defendants with the counter. The case also indicates the "German Company-1" located in the German town of Schöneck, through which aviation equipment manufactured or repaired in the United States went to Russia. Another intermediary company is the Yerevan-based Armenian Company-1. Like the "absentee" Balakayev, Buinovsky and Robertson face 20 years in prison, and if they add up the sentences on all charges, they will not sit out like this, but until the court's decision, both are considered innocent.
With Boris Aminov, everything is simpler, and after his arrest in Brooklyn on March 2, he was taken to Manhattan federal court and, under lawyer Steve Zissou, was accused of defrauding the Medicare program and other medical assistance programs for a total of at least $ 15 million, after which he was released on bail of a million dollars real estate with two guarantors. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein was indicted and Judge Mary Kay Vicosil, 64, who was nominated by President Trump in 2019, is assigned to hear the case. Together with Aminov, four more are involved in the case, judging by the surnames, Latin Americans. "Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is believed to have been involved in a scam to get rich by defrauding Medicaid and other federal insurance programs by depriving HIV patients of their medications.
The defendants allegedly made millions of dollars by submitting fake insurance policies, paying illegal kickbacks, and selling HIV drugs. Today's arrests make it abundantly clear to those who line their pockets by lying to the federal agencies that protect the health of low-income people and profit from vulnerable members of society that they cannot escape. I have read the cliché about "line the pockets" in the press releases of our federal prosecutor's offices hundreds of times, but it works. Following Prosecutor Williams, FBI New York Chief Michael Driscoll also reiterated that "the defendants not only cheated Medicaid and other federal insurance programs," but "profited from vulnerable, low-income HIV patients" and "the FBI will always do whatever is necessary to protect the integrity of health care programs like Medicare and hold accountable those who use these programs."
Together with Boris Aminnov, 41-year-old Christy Corvalan, 24-year-old David Fernandez, 22-year-old Desiree Baez and 27-year-old Crystal Medina are living in the case. Carvalan owned two pharmacies in the Bronx and, according to the prosecution, "bought medicines from Aminov on the black market, which then went to HIV patients, and paid them to sell these drugs back to her pharmacies, 'thereby encouraging patients to refuse to take the drugs they were prescribed to treat their HIV infections.'" Fernández, Baez and Medina worked in Corvalán pharmacies and participated in this scam, paying drug sellers. Simply put, in Christie Carvalan pharmacies, patients with the HIV virus received expensive drugs free of charge under the Medicare program, the bills for which were paid by this program. They sold the received medicines for cashIn addition, the scam went on for years, enriching its participants, but mainly Christy Carvalan. The indictment calls Boris Aminov "one of the main suppliers" of HIV drugs to Kristi Corvalan's pharmacies. In the case, there is an exchange of text messages intercepted by FBI agents on May 10, 2021. "Beak-20," Christie writes, of course in English, "Odefsy-10 and Tiwi-10... But for how much and for how long." Boris replies that "750, 800 and 400 ... in a week." The transcript explains that Corvalan was interested in how much Amin would sell her 20 vials of Bictavy pills, 10 vials of Odefsey, and 10 vials of Tivicay, and he named the price. The prosecution explains that the Medicare program pays the pharmacy for these drugs from 2 to 3.5 thousand dollars per bottle.
The indictment says that "the defendants spent the money received by the scam ... millions of dollars in expensive cars, real estate, designer clothes and jewelry." In particular, Kristi Corvalan bought a Mercedes-Benz Maybach worth about $245 thousand in 2021, and in fact there is a photo of her sitting on the hood of this car. On my own behalf, I will add that Christie is a namesake, but not a relative of the late Secretary General of the Chilean Communists, who was released from prison in 1976 in exchange for the Soviet political prisoner dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, whom the newspaper Pravda called "a malicious hooligan engaged in anti-Soviet activities" before his arrest. An underground ditty appeared about this in the USSR with the words: "They exchanged the hooligan for Luis Corvalan."
Not long ago, Leo Shalit, a Russian-speaking lawyer, introduced me to a similar but civil lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court by Gilead Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in California. The company, which specializes in HIV/AIDS drugs, accuses more than 100 defendants of "knowingly and knowingly manufacturing, selling, advertising, and distributing Gilead Sciences' counterfeit medicines, including an HIV drug." The defendants are pharmacies and individuals, among whom I distinguished Boris Abramov, Peter Chaim, Samuel Yakubov, Bakhtiyar Nabiev, Tariel Begiyev, Alex Gelbinovich, Stephen Diamantstein and Pavel Lashkevich, as well as Hakob Kolodjian and Lorik Papayan. Those who want to know the details are referred to the 177 pages of the case # 21-cv-4106.
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Latvian citizen accused of circumventing anti-Russian sanctions extradited to the United States
Latvian citizen Oleg Chistyakov was extradited by the authorities of this country to the United States, where charges were brought against him, together with alleged accomplices, of supplying complex American-made aviation equipment to Russia subject to export restrictions.
The trial in the case of Chistyakov will take place in the federal court of the District of Kansas, where these charges were officially brought against him, follows from the message of the US Department of Justice.
According to court documents, Chistyakov, 55, allegedly conspired with U.S. citizens Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky, 61, and Douglas Edward Robertson, 56, both residents of Kansas.
The purpose of the defendants in the case, according to the prosecutor's office, was to ensure the sale, repair and supply of American-made avionics to customers in Russia and in other countries operating Russian-made aircraft, including the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB).
Buyanovsky and Robertson were charged back in March 2023, both were detained and pleaded guilty.
It is expected that the verdict to Buyanovsky will be handed down on November 14, Robertson - on October 3, the report specifies.
According to prosecutors, Chistyakov, operating from Latvia, in many cases through his UAE-registered company RosAero FZC, collaborated with Buyanovsky and Robertson through their U.S. company, KanRus Trading Company Inc. (KanRus), to circumvent U.S. export control laws.
Chistyakov allegedly acted as a broker for KanRus, collecting information on stock quotes, negotiating prices and delivery terms, and facilitating payments between KanRus and clients in Russia. It is alleged that Chistyakov and his alleged accomplices tried to conceal their illegal activities by issuing false invoices, transshipment of goods through third countries, including, for example, Germany and the UAE, using bank accounts in third countries such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the UAE, as well as exporting goods to intermediary companies, which then re-exported these goods to their final destinations.
According to the US Department of Justice, a number of legal entities and individuals involved in Chistyakov's activities, considered illegal by the prosecution, were included in December 2023 by the US Department of Commerce in the list of persons subject to special licensing requirements in relation to transactions made by such persons.
Chistyakov is charged with conspiracy, violation of the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA), smuggling and money laundering. If the charges are confirmed in court, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $ 1 million.
