During a court session in New York, 51-year-old Russian Maxim Marchenko pleaded guilty to smuggling American microchips to Russia.
Marchenko worked in Hong Kong and was arrested by FBI agents in Fiji in September.
According to American law, Marchenko can receive 20 years in prison for money laundering and 10 years for smuggling from the United States.
Marchenko supplied Russia with American microdisplays on organic LEDs, which can be used in scopes, night vision devices, thermal imagers and other military items.
According to investigative documents, after his arrest, Marchenko admitted that he purchased goods in the United States together with two other suspects, met with one of them in Russia and received funding from there.
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