Russian companies and chip trafficking. Who are the Bulgarians accused by the US of violating the embargo?

The 49-year-old Bulgarian Milan Dimitrov Dimitrov, arrested in Greece in December, is awaiting bail for the court’s decision on his extradition.

Reuters. He, his wife Mariana Marinova Gargova, as well as his father Dimitar Milanov Dimitrov They were charged in 2020 by a federal court with violating U.S. sanctions against Russia. The Russian (Ilyas) is also accused of Bulgarians in the United States Ilyas Harresovich Sabirov – property owner in Varna and founder of the sanctioned Russian companies “Cosmos Komplekt

” and “Sovtest Comp

“.

Dimitar Milanov Dimitrov since 2007 is the General Director of the Moscow-registered, established by Ilyas Sabirov, sanctioned Russian company Cosmos Komplekt

.

The arrested in Greece Milan Dimitrov is the majority owner of the Bulgarian “ADM Microelectronics

” Ltd. and is a registered representative in Bulgaria of the Russian “Meridian Telecom Intergroup

“.

At the address of the two companies in sq. Dianabad in Sofia is registered another representative office of a Russian company in Bulgaria. It’s in his mother’s name. Svetlana Vladimirovna Dimitrova, probably of Russian origin judging by her father’s name. She is a representative of “Ural-Tento

” – created by FSUP “Technointorg”

– a company of the former Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR.

Milan’s wife, Mariana Marinova Gargova, is the sole owner of the Bulgarian company MTIG, accused in the United States of violating US sanctions against Russia

,” Ltd (MTIG). The allegations come after an investigation by The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is the government agency responsible for issuing export and re-export licenses for high-tech, military- and dual-purpose products.

Despite

the control of the US BIS and despite international sanctions, Russia manages to circumvent them and receives chips for Russian missiles used to hit Ukraine.

The US authorities’ request to search for Milan Dimitrov claims that microchips sold to Russia despite the ban can also be used to target projectiles.

Arrested in Greece Milan Dimitrov has also carried out property transactions with Russian citizens, according to a check in the Property Register. In 2010, he sold an apartment in Sofia to a Russian citizen born in 1975.

Owner in sanctioned Russian companies with property in Varna

The accused in the United States Russian (Ilyas) Ilyas Harresovich Sabirov and his wife Elena Alekseevna Sabirova own a property with an area of 117 sq.m. in a two-storey building in the villa area “Vayalar” in Varna. A reference in the Property Register shows that the property was purchased by the Sabirovs in December 2009.

Russian properties and companies in Bulgaria

BIRD.BG is not the first time he has revealed properties and companies in Bulgaria to sanctioned Russians. Among them are Properties of Sergei Chemezov, Maxim Topilin, Vladimir Pligin and Alexei Chepa. In another
publication
revealed how the Black Sea resort linked the management of Russian state-owned companies with TIM.

Bulgaria has not imposed sanctions on any Russian citizens or any Russian company on the sanctions lists, Mediapool recently reported

.

Last year, BIRD.BG developed a search engine

in the data of over 100,000 Russian citizens with properties and participations in companies in Bulgaria.

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