Nikolay Goltsev was sentenced to 40 months in prison for conspiring to ship restricted electronics to Russia, which were later used by the Russian military in its invasion of Ukraine.
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Mark Rutte, however, did not address Ukraine’s most recent request for full membership – Dec 3, 2024Russian-Montrealer Nikolay Goltsev was sentenced to 40 months in a U.S. prison Wednesday for conspiring to ship restricted electronics to Russia that were later used in President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The sentence was announced by the U.S. Justice Department. It had accused Goltsev of secretly shipping more than $10 million in restricted electronics to the Kremlin for use in missile systems, combat helicopter and signals intelligence systems in its Ukraine war. “Goltsev and his wife thought they would ‘get rich’ by running an illicit global procurement scheme to supply sanctioned end users in Russia,” said Kevin J. Kurland, U.S. Department of Commerce acting assistant secretary for export enforcement. “Instead, they got jail time.” Goltsev was arrested in 2023 in New York and accused of masterminding a global procurement scheme on behalf of sanctioned Russian companies, including Russian military companies, with help from his wife, Kristina Puzyreva, who was also arrested and who has also been convicted and jailed in the case.Goltsev’s sentence sends a strong message that those who break U.S. laws and contribute to Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine “will be held accountable,” said U.S. Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “The Department of Justice will vigorously pursue those who procure the component parts that make Russia’s war machine tick. This case demonstrates that these wrongdoers will be found and punished accordingly,” he adde
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