Montreal man sentenced in U.S. for exporting weapon components to Russia [Video]

A Montreal man has been sentenced to 40 months in prison by a United States federal court for running a scheme to illegally export millions of dollars’ worth of electronic components to Russia for military use.

Nikolay Goltsev, 38, used two companies in Brooklyn, N.Y., to purchase electronics from U.S. manufacturers and send them to companies in Russia that are under sanction by the U.S. government. Some of the equipment was later found in seized Russian weapons platforms and signals intelligence equipment in Ukraine.

In a Wednesday news release, U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said Goltsev has been “held accountable for unlawfully procuring and profiting from the sale of U.S. technology to further Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine.”

The U.S. Department of Justice said in the press release that Goltsev purchased the electronics under the auspices of the two Brooklyn companies, called SH Brothers and SN Electronics, and arranged …