Eleview International Inc., a Virginia-based freight forwarding company, along with its owner Oleg Nayandin and senior employee Vitaliy Borisenko, received sentences for their roles in a scheme to illegally export U.S. goods and technology to Russia. The sentencing took place in Alexandria, Virginia.
Court records indicate that between February 2022 and June 2023, Eleview International operated an e-commerce platform that allowed Russian customers to purchase U.S. goods. These items were first shipped to Eleview’s warehouse in Chantilly, Virginia, before being consolidated and sent overseas. To bypass export restrictions implemented after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the defendants routed shipments through Turkey, Finland, and Kazakhstan.
The investigation found that Eleview made false statements regarding the final recipients of the exported goods. In one instance involving Turkey, 23 shipments of telecommunications equipment were sent under false pretenses to a Turkish entity but ultimately destined for a Russian telecommunications firm supplying the Russian government and security services. This equipment was found to have military applications.
In another scheme through Finland, 83 shipments were labeled with Russian postal tracking numbers prior to consolidation and shipment to a fake Finnish recipient. The Department of Commerce identified some of these items as significant for Russian weaponry; similar components have been used in drones targeting Ukrainian military assets.
A third scheme involved approximately 52 shipments routed through Kazakhstan using an intermediary advertising delivery services into Russia. These shipments included dual-use items subject to export controls.
As part of their sentences, Eleview was fined $125,000 and placed on three years’ probation with requirements for compliance reporting and employee training on export controls. Nayandin received a three-year prison sentence while Borisenko was sentenced to one year in prison.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Industry and Security within the Department of Commerce and Homeland Security Investigations. Prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia as well as the National Security Division handled the prosecution.
Further details can be found on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia or by searching Case No. 1:25-cr-46 on PACER.
