{"id":49448,"date":"2022-04-14T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=49448"},"modified":"2022-04-14T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T21:37:15","slug":"russian-legislator-and-two-others-allegedly-conspired-to-influence-u-s-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=49448","title":{"rendered":"Russian Legislator and Two Others Allegedly Conspired to Influence U.S. Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1537 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LADYJUSTICE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"240\" \/>Three Russian citizens are charged with allegedly violating U.S. sanctions and conspiring to commit visa fraud, federal officials announced Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to court documents, beginning in or around January 2012 through at least June 2017, Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Babakov, 59; Aleksandr Nikolayevich Vorobev, 52; and Mikhail Alekseyevich Plisyuk, 58, operated an international foreign influence and disinformation network to advance the interests of Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cThe indictment alleges that a high-ranking Putin-aligned legislator and his closest staffers, all three of whom are sanctioned, engaged in a global campaign to influence and gain access to U.S. elected officials,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department\u2019s National Security Division. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Adding, \u201cthe Department will not hesitate to prosecute those who seek to covertly influence the American political process and evade U.S. sanctions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-274x173.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>\u201cRussian legislator Aleksandr Babakov and two of his staffers allegedly orchestrated a covert Russian propaganda campaign in the United States in order to advance Russia\u2019s malevolent political designs against Ukraine and other countries, including the United States.,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. \u201cToday\u2019s indictment demonstrates that Russia\u2019s illegitimate actions against Ukraine extend beyond the battlefield, as political influencers under Russia\u2019s control allegedly plotted to steer geopolitical change in Russia\u2019s favor through surreptitious and illegal means in the United States and elsewhere in the West. Such malign foreign interference will be exposed, and we will pursue justice against its perpetrators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3918 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As alleged in the indictment, Babakov, a member of the Russian legislature, Vorobev, his Chief of Staff, and Plisyuk, another member of Babakov\u2019s staff, used a nonprofit organization based in Russia, the Institute for International Integration Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">International Integration Studies is a front for this global foreign influence campaign to advance Russia\u2019s foreign policy objectives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Through these operations aimed at influencing the course of international affairs, the defendants worked to weaken U.S. partnerships with European allies, undermine Western sanctions and promote Russia\u2019s illicit actions designed to destroy the sovereignty of Ukraine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The defendants schemed to affect U.S. policy towards Russia through staged events, paid propaganda, and the recruitment of at least one American citizen (CC-1) to do their bidding in an unofficial capacity and without notice to the Attorney General, as required by law. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49450\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ljk004r27no.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49450 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ljk004r27no-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"man in black suit jacket and blue hat standing in front of store\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ljk004r27no-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ljk004r27no-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ljk004r27no-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ljk004r27no-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ljk004r27no.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In pursuit of these goals, the defendants sought to co-opt U.S. and European politicians and to influence public opinion in their favor, using American and European citizens as their proxies to validate them, bring them access to power, evade sanctions and obscure their true objective to advance Russia\u2019s foreign policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Among other things, the defendants contacted members of the U.S. Congress from 2012 into 2017 to seek meetings and to offer free travel to at least one Congressmember on behalf of Babakov, as well as other foreign officials aligned and associated with Babakov. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">For example, in 2012, at the direction of the defendants, CC-1 sought to secure a meeting for Babakov with multiple members of Congress, including by offering an\u00a0\u201call expenses paid\u201d trip to a particular Congressmember to meet with European politicians and receive \u201can award.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> Congressmembers rebuffed these efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In March 2017, the defendants sought to arrange a meeting for Babakov with a member of the U.S. Congress in pursuit of the objective of \u201cstrengthen[ing] the ties of cooperation between\u201d Russia and the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">To secure that meeting, the defendants, through CC-1, transmitted a letter drafted by CC-1 and signed by Babakov to a particular Congressmember.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Also in March 2017, the defendants contacted at least one member of the U.S. Congress to offer free travel to a Babakov-affiliated conference in Yalta, part of Russia-controlled Crimea, as a service to benefit the purported \u201cPrime Minister of Crimea,\u201d Sergey Aksyonov. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Aksyonov was organizing and attending the conference, and had been sanctioned by the Department of Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) as a Specially Designated National (SDN) since 2014 based on his role in actions and policies threatening the sovereignty of Ukraine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The defendants worked together and with their associates to organize, facilitate and promote the Yalta conference, including by soliciting Americans to attend and present at the conference and receive funding from Aksyonov\u2019s organizing committee, for the benefit of Akysonov and his Russia-backed purported government of Crimea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Congressmember did not accept the offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In connection with these foreign influence activities, the defendants also submitted fraudulent visa applications in February 2017 seeking to travel to the United States under the false pretense of each traveling alone for a \u201cvacation,\u201d when in fact they planned to conduct unofficial meetings with U.S. politicians and advisors to further their influence objectives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In June 2017, OFAC sanctioned the three defendants as SDNs. The defendants\u2019 visa applications were ultimately denied in January 2018, disrupting the defendants\u2019 planned meetings in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Babakov currently serves as the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian legislature. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">From approximately September 2014 to October 2021, Babakov served as a member of the Russian Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian legislature, and therefore had the title of Senator. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">From approximately 2003 to 2014, Babakov served as a member of the State Duma, where he held prominent roles such as Chair of the State Duma Commission on Legislative Provisions for Development of the Military-Industrial Complex of the Russian Federation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In or around 2011, Babakov joined the United Russia party, which is the political party of Russian President Vladimir Putin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">On or around June 17, 2012, Putin appointed Babakov to be the Russian Federation\u2019s Special Representative for Cooperation with Organizations Representing Russians Living Abroad. Babakov has become a leader in the \u201cFor Truth\u201d party formed in or about 2021, which supports Putin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">At all times relevant to the indictment, Vorobev has held the position of Chief of Staff for Babakov, and Plisyuk has served on Babakov\u2019s staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Babakov, Vorobev and Plisyuk face lengthy prison sentences if convicted of the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The case is being investigated by the FBI\u2019s New York Field Office with valuable assistance provided by the National Security Division\u2019s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">On March 2, the Attorney General announced the launch of Task Force KleptoCapture, an interagency law enforcement task force dedicated to enforcing the sweeping sanctions, export restrictions and economic countermeasures that the United States has imposed, along with allies and partners, in response to Russia\u2019s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine. The task force will leverage all the Department\u2019s tools and authorities against efforts to evade or undermine the economic actions taken by the U.S. government in response to Russian military aggression.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK Three Russian citizens are charged with allegedly violating U.S. sanctions and conspiring to commit visa fraud, federal officials announced Thursday. 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