FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Two South Florida men working for a company with offices in Hallandale Beach and Ohio are facing several charges in Cincinnati federal court after authorities accused them of illegally exporting aircraft parts to Russia.
Marat Aysin, 39, of Miami, and Pavel Iglin, 46, of Plantation, could spend decades in federal prison after being charged with 11 counts, including export law violations, smuggling and money laundering. They were booked into the Broward Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday.
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Daniela Friery, 43, of Loveland, Ohio, faces the same charges.
Authorities said the three worked for Flighttime Enterprises Inc., described as “an American subsidiary of a Russian aircraft parts supplier.”
The company has offices at 1250 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd. and in the Cincinnati suburb of West Chester Township, Ohio. It has also been charged in federal court.
Federal prosecutors in Ohio said in a news release that the trio, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, “knowingly and willfully violated and evaded” export restrictions to ship aviation parts to Russia.
Customers included airlines subject to restrictions from the U.S. Department of Commerce, authorities said.
The trio evaded sanctions by “mislabeling shipments, providing false certifications, and using intermediary companies and countries to obscure the true end destination and end users,” prosecutors said.
The three shipped parts through the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Armenia and the Maldives, according to court documents, which detail four specific transactions totaling $2 million.
For example, prosecutors outlined the June 2022 purchase of an auxiliary power unit for $395,000, in which the American supplier “initially expressed hesitation about the transaction due to the company’s connections to Russia.”
“In connection with the purchase, Aysin falsely told the American supplier that the part would be used to replenish stock in West Chester,” a U.S. Department of Justice news release states. “Through Aysin, Iglin allegedly signed and dated a Russia end-user certificate with the supplier falsely certifying that the part would not be exported to Russia.”
But the part was exported to Russia, prosecutors said.
Aysin, a permanent resident who lives in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, and Iglin, a Russian national living in South Florida on a non-permanent visa, were being held in Broward on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service as of Friday.
Jail information for Friery, a naturalized U.S. citizen, wasn’t disclosed. She did not appear in Federal Bureau of Prisons records as of Friday morning.
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