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.Nikolay Goltsev, 38, pleaded guilty in July 2024, to conspiracy to commit export control violations for his role in a global procurement scheme providing electronic parts to sanctioned Russian companies, including companies with Russian military contracts.
Some of the equipment was later found in seized Russian weapons platforms and signals intelligence equipment in Ukraine. The U.S. Department of Justice said in the news release that Goltsev purchased the electronics under the auspices of the two Brooklyn companies, called SH Brothers and SN Electronics, and arranged for them to be shipped to various locations in Brooklyn. He would then ship the equipment to several intermediary front companies in Turkey, Hong Kong, India, China and the United Arab Emirates, and from there they were rerouted to Russia.