In Houston Texas eleven alleged members of a group called clandestine
have been charged with a conspiracy to steal American technology. All of them
were charge by a grand jury on Wednesday of conspiracy to steal American technology
to Russia. One of the main leaders Alexander appeared in court was read all the
charges he faces. Alexander owns a US and Russia Company and he was using the Russia
company to steal plans of what the united states was doing. Even though alexander
became a US citizen is 1994 he still charge. They are charging him as a unregistered
agent on behalf of the Russian government to oversee shipments to Russia of
radar and surveillance systems. Since Russia doesn’t have the ability to make
this technology right now what these people were doing was using the advantage
of America free markets to steal American technology so it could benefit the Russian
government. In the indictment it states that Alexander was running a fake
technology company and Houston where he was having shipments being sending out
to Russia. The other men that were
involved were following along with alexander where they were exchanging e-mails
and secrets about this technology. Alexander was also using a woman named
Klebanova who was trying to help alexander and others on how to evade us export
laws. Some of the men tried to flee the country but they were arrested before
they could get back to Russia. Penalty for their action can be up to 20 years
in jail.
Selling
secrets to the Russian government is by far a global issue. Russian were trying
to gain access to us technology and send those secret back to Russia. Alexander
was even trying to evade the US export laws that are in place. This was a huge
security risk especially if they were successful which they weren’t and they
were caught. Now all these men are going to spend the rest of their life in
jail because of their actions.
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