Greece Extradites Bulgarian National for Illegal Exports of Microelectronics to Russia

         On August 12, 2024, the United States Department of Justice announced that Bulgarian national Milan Dimitrov, 50, made his initial appearance in a federal court in San Antonio after Greece extradited him.  The indictment charges Milan Dimitrov with conspiring with Ilias Sabirov, 52, of Russia, and Dimitar Dimitrov, 74, of Bulgaria to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) in an arrangement to obtain sensitive radiation-hardened integrated circuits from the United States and illegally export the components to Russia through Bulgaria without the required licenses from the U.S. government.