Two men from Kansas were arrested by U.S. authorities on Thursday, accused of being involved in a scheme to circumvent U.S. export laws that included illegally exporting aviation technology to Russia, after stricter restrictions on exports to Russia were imposed following its invasion of Ukraine.
The two men, Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky, 59, of Lawrence, and Douglas Robertson, 55, of Olathe, are charged with conspiracy, exporting controlled goods without a license, falsifying and failing to file electronic export information, and smuggling goods contrary to U.S. law.