MARYLAND
A federal judge today sentenced a former Russian official residing in Maryland to four years in prison for his role in arranging for more than $2 million in illegal payments, according to authorities.
The money was used to influence the awarding of contracts with Russian owned nuclear energy corporation, officials said.
Mikerin further admitted that the conspirators used consulting agreements and code words to disguise the corrupt payments.
According to court documents, Mikerin was the director of the Pan American Department of JSC Techsnabexport or TENEX, a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation and the sole supplier and exporter of Russian Federation uranium and uranium enrichment services to nuclear power companies worldwide.
He was also the president of TENAM Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary and the official representative of TENEX.
The evidence indicated that between 2004 and October 2014, conspirators agreed to make illegal payments to influence Mikerin and to secure improper business advantages for U.S. companies that did business with TENEX, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Mikerin admitted that he conspired wit Daren Condrey, Boris Rubizhevsky and others to transmit approximately $2.1 million from Maryland and elsewhere in the United States to offshore shell company bank accounts located in Cyprus, Latvia and Switzerland with the intent to promote the federal violations, the evidence indicated.
Condrey, 50, of Glenwood, Maryland, plead guilty on June 17 to conspiracy to violate federal law and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Rubizhevsky, 64, of Closter, New Jersey, plead guilty on June 15 to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Condrey and Rubizhevsky await sentencing.