Gal Haimovich, 49, admitted to deceiving American companies about the destination of goods, including some that had missile technology applications, which he supplied to intermediaries en route to Russian customers, the US Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday.

The Israeli national hid from suppliers that he was ultimately working on behalf of Siberia Airlines, which he billed for some $2 million. He has now agreed to forfeit the money along with various aircraft parts.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t, because a single individual committed a crime, and got punished for it. Not sure what you think was obvious about this.

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          3 months ago

          Even if we somehow pretend that it was just a “single individual”, with no help, no assistance, nothing, do kindly activate your neurons and pause to think - what kind of socio-economic system would give people an incentive to do something like this? Hmmmmmmmm?!