Tajik-U S Businessman, Russian Accomplices Accused Of Smuggling Technology To Support Russia s War In Ukraine globalsecurity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalsecurity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Over the course of two days, six people were indicted in New York for a pair of sanctions evasion schemes, including one Tajik-Russian resident of Brooklyn.
A Tajik-American and two Russian-Canadians are being held in custody in New York for allegedly smuggling U.S. technology to the Russian military, violating Western sanctions. Some of the electronic components they allegedly shipped were found in Russian hardware in Ukraine, U.S. officials say.
While crossing the Lithuanian border in January, Nasriddinov was arrested by Belarusian authorities at the request of Tajik authorities. In February, Belarus agreed to send him to Tajikistan.
The Tajik authorities should drop trumped up charges against Nizomiddin Nasriddinov and immediately release him, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Human Rights Watch, Freedom for Eurasia, and Freedom Now said today. Nasriddinov, a political activist, was recently extradited from Belarus at the request of the Tajik government