Virginia freight forwarder sentenced for illegally shipping millions worth of U.S. goods and technology to Russia

The owner of a Virginia-based freight forwarding company was sentenced for a scheme to illegally export goods and technology from the United States to Russia.

On February 13, 2026, freight forwarding company Eleview International Inc., company owner Oleg Nayandin, 54, of Fairfax, Virginia, and senior employee Vitaliy Borisenko, 39, of Vienna, Virginia, were sentenced on charges of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act.

Nayandin was sentenced to three years in prison.

Borisenko was sentenced to a year in prison.

Eleview was sentenced to a fine of $125,000 and three years of probation.

Officials say that the defendants took part in a scheme to illegally ship millions of dollars worth of U.S. goods and technology to Russia by transshipping them through three countries bordering or near Russia.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, Eleview, Nayandin, and Borisenko operated an e-commerce site that allowed Russian customers to purchase goods and technology from American retailers. These items would be shipped to a Eleview warehouse in Chantilly. The U.S. goods would be consolidated before being shipped to customers in Russia, “often using other freight forwarders as intermediaries.”

“After the Department of Commerce imposed stricter export controls in response to Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nayandin and Borisenko, on behalf of Eleview, coordinated shipments of items to purported end users in Turkey, Finland, and Kazakhstan that were ultimately destined for end users in Russia. To facilitate these illegal exports, they made numerous false statements to other freight forwarders about the end users and ultimate consignees of the items in these shipments,” officials said.

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office:

“In the Turkey scheme, Eleview exported 23 shipments of telecommunications equipment to a false end user in Turkey that was intended for a Russian telecommunications company that supplied the Russian government, including the Federal Security Service. The telecommunications equipment that Eleview exported illegally as part of the Turkey scheme had military applications, including use by the Russian military to create and expand communication networks.

In the Finland scheme, Eleview exported 83 shipments of goods to Russia through Eleview’s e-commerce website to a false end user in Finland that neither purchased nor sold goods. Before consolidating the packages into larger pallets for shipment to Finland, Eleview affixed to each package a label with a Russian postal service tracking number so that the Russian postal service could easily ship the package to the customer in Russia. The goods Eleview exported illegally as part of the Finland scheme included items that the Department of Commerce has identified as particularly significant to Russian weaponry, including the same type of electronic component found on Russian “suicide” drones used to destroy Ukrainian tanks and jets.

In the Kazakhstan scheme, Eleview exported approximately 52 shipments of goods to Russia through an entity in Kazakhstan that advertises its ability to deliver goods to Russia. The goods that Eleview exported illegally as part of the Kazakhstan scheme included controlled, dual-use items.”

This case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security and Homeland Security Investigations.