According to the investigation, Intertech Corporation falsified accompanying documents for goods, circumvented export restrictions and disguised customers
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and US federal prosecutors are investigating New Hampshire-based Intertech Corporation over suspected “deliberate falsification” of documents to ship its products to Moscow, TASS reports. According to news portal The Daily Beast, which has obtained court documents on the case, one of the ultimate recipients of the goods could allegedly be the Russian Federal Security Service (FSS).
“According to these documents, investigators suspect the company “deliberately falsified accompanying documents for the goods, avoided and circumvented export restrictions and masked the end users” of certain laboratory equipment that was supplied to Russia. According to the data, this refers to five shipments of goods sent between March 2015 and September 2016″, – the report said.
According to the newspaper, the US company is linked to the Russian firm Intertek Instruments, which the US Department of Commerce blacklisted in March along with eight other Russian companies and the 27th Science Centre of the Russian Ministry of Defence. According to a Department of Commerce statement released at the time, the restricted list was said to have been involved in “Russian weapons of mass destruction programmes and chemical weapons activities”.
The Daily Beast notes that no formal charges have been made against the company or its employees. It also remains unclear what kind of goods, according to the FBI, Intertech supplied to Russia.