A Kansas businessman admitted to violating export control and money laundering laws by illegally exporting U.S.-made aviation electronics to Russia before and after Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday.
Douglas Edward Robertson, 56, of Olathe, pleaded guilty to involvement in “a years-long conspiracy to circumvent U.S. export laws by filing false export forms with the U.S. government and, after Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, continuing to sell and export sophisticated and controlled avionics equipment to customers in Russia without the required licenses from the U.S. Department of Commerce,” according to the DOJ’s statement. Robertson, the former vice president of KanRus Trading Company Inc., was arrested Mar. 2023.
Robertson reportedly admitted he conspired with certain others to smuggle avionics to Russia and…
