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The individuals detained in the United States on suspicion of illegally exporting high-tech microelectronic equipment do not include Ukrainian citizens, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday, Oct. 5.

“The information provided to Ukraine’s Embassy by the U.S. services
in charge of these issues confirms that there are natives of several
former Soviet Republics among those detained. One of them was born in
the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, but he does not have Ukrainian
citizenship. Apart from his American ID, no other documents that would
confirm his other citizenship were found,” Dykusarov said.

As reported, on October 3, U.S. authorities brought the charges
against 11 people in a case on the illegal export of high-tech
microelectronic devices from the United States to Russia. Eight people
are in the United States, and they were taken into custody under a
Houston court ruling.

Charges were also brought against three citizens staying in Moscow.

Russian Consul General in Houston Alexander Zakharov said that of the
eight people detained by U.S. law enforcement agencies, four are
Russians and the rest are citizens of Azerbaijan, Ukraine and
Kazakhstan.