Filed False Forms, Other Means To Conceal Activities

Oleg Chistyakov, aka Olegs Chitsjakovs, a 56-year-old Latvian national, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Kansas for his role in a conspiracy that lasted years to get around U.S. export laws to procure and sell sophisticated avionics equipment to customers in Russia without the necessary export licenses from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Court documents show that Chistyakov admitted to conspiring with U.S. citizens Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky and Douglas Edward Robertson, both of Kansas, to facilitate the sale and shipment of U.S. avionics equipment to customers in Russia and other countries that operate Russian-built aircraft, including FSB, the Federal Security Service of Russia.

Buyanovsky and Robertson were arrested and charged in Kansas in March 2023 and have pled guilty.

Chistyakov admitted the three men did various things to try to conceal their illegal activities, such as creating false invoices, using bank accounts in third-party countries such as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, transshipping items through third-party countries like Laos and UAE, and exporting items to intermediary companies who then reexported them to their destinations.

Chistyakov has agreed to aa personal forfeiture judgment against him, and he also faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. A judge in a federal district court will determine his sentence after considering sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 10, 2026.

Chistyakov was extradited from Latvia to the U.S. in August 2024.

FMI:  www.justice.gov/