Who is Alexey Brayman? Craft shop owner helped run smuggling ring, shipped nuclear weapon devices to Russia
MERRIMACK, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Prosecutors assert that a New Hampshire couple used their Etsy craft shop as a front to allegedly transport components for nuclear bombs to Russia. One of the seven suspects in the case, Alexey Brayman, was arrested after being charged with smuggling highly sensitive information that led to the making of weapons in Russia’s war on Ukraine. He must give up his passport and prosecutors have requested that he should be jailed on a $250,000 bail.
According to federal authorities, Brayman and his associates were employed by the Serniya syndicate, a network of suppliers whose operations were "instrumental to the Russian Federation's war machine" in the indictment. Officials claimed that the Merrimack suburban home where Brayman resided was "repeatedly used" as a way station for the packaging and shipping of dual-use and military-grade technologies to intermediaries across Europe and Asia. According to the document, both Brayman and Vadim Yermolenko, a 41-year-old New Jersey resident who was also apprehended on December 13 in connection with the alleged plot, are lawful permanent residents of the United States. Vadim Konoshchenok, 48, who was arrested in Estonia earlier this month, is one of the other four Russian nationals included in the indictment.
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