Indian man gets 30-month jail in US for illegal export of...

Key Highlights

• This defendant sought, on multiple occasions, to undermine safeguards critical to US national security and foreign policy for his own personal gain,” he said.
• The court sentenced Kaushik from Delhi to 30 months in federal prison and 36 months of supervised release for conspiring with others to export controlled aviation components and a navigation and flight control system to end users in Russia, in violation of the Export Control Reform Act.
• “Those who scheme to circumvent US export control laws – especially when it involves technologies with military applications – will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said.
• “The security of the United States demands that perpetrators of deceitful schemes like this one are held accountable for their actions,” he said.
• According to court documents, beginning in early September 2023, Kaushik conspired with others to unlawfully obtain aerospace goods and technology from the US for entities in Russia.