Smuggler provided sensitive US tech to Russian, N. Korean governments, prosecutors say

A Russian national has been charged in the U.S. with smuggling devices used in counterintelligence operations out of the U.S. and into Russia. 

Ilya Balakaev, 47, allegedly provided U.S. equipment to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the North Korean government, breaking U.S. sanctions against those countries. 

The Department of Justice said Balakaev is “currently a fugitive.” The indictment against him was unsealed Friday in a New York federal court. If captured and convicted, he faces up to 75 …

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