Tag: Chip Russia

[ad_1] For years, Artem Uss had appeared in Russian media as the owner of fancy real estate, luxury cars and Italian hotels. Now US officials allege he's at the center of a suspected secret supply chain that prosecutors say used American technology to support President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.The son of a Siberian governor was arrested last year on charges that he and his associates defrauded the US and its companies and also violated sanctions by selling sensitive technologies from the US to Russia via intermediaries in non-sanctioned countries. He's the most politically connected Russian to be indicted by the US as Washington races to choke off Moscow's access to chips used in weapons systems. Uss has denied any wrongdoing and is now in the midst of an extradition battle in M...