News / US Justice Department cracks down on sanctions-busting

Forwarders are among those recently charged by US authorities with breaching sanctions on Russia by sending illegal exports of military and reconnaissance equipment.

In the past month, four US dual-nationals, a resident of India and a Ukrainian national have been caught up in a US Department of Justice (DOJ) crackdown on flows of prohibited goods into Russia, the most recent discovered on Monday.

The DOJ said US/Russian citizen Sergey Nechaev had been arrested on charges relating ...