A second key figure in the alleged plot to smuggle nuclear weapons technology from America to Russia has been revealed - and he is another suburban husband who was apparently living a double life. Vadim Yermolenko, 41 lives in a luxury $1m, four-bedroom, four-bathroom New Jersey home with his glamorous wife and their young children, DailyMail.com can disclose. His identity can now be disclosed after it emerged that another accused member of the conspiracy, Alexey Brayman, runs an online craft store in New Hampshire with his wife. Yarmolenko and Brayman, who were indicted Tuesday then released after posting bail, allegedly helped supply Russia with technology that can be used in nuclear and hypersonic weapons.
The scheme was part of a sophisticated plot orchestrated by the country's security services, prosecutors say. The elaborate smuggling network, which spanned several continents, has been likened to the plot of a wild espionage drama.
It is key to maintaining Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine, which has cost the lives of thousands of civilians - and massively depleted Moscow's stocks of weaponry. Yermolenko is accused of playing a key role in getting equipment worth millions of dollars to fellow family man Brayman, who then shipped it to Europe before it was smuggled into Russia. Yermolenko deployed deceptive and fraudulent tactics to open shell companies and eVDEN EVe nAkliyat bank accounts in order to mask the reason for the purchases and destination of the products, it is claimed. With Brayman, he would alter, forge, and destroy shipping documents, invoices and other business records to unlawfully export items from the United States.
Brayman and Yermolenko allegedly trafficked 'advanced electronics and eVdeN EVE NAkliYAt sophisticated testing equipment used in quantum computing, hypersonic and nuclear weapons'.
Pictured: A Russian S-400 missile defense system drives in Red Square, central Moscow, on May 9, 2022
Prosecutors also revealed the vast web of the supply chain which carried the technology into Russia. Common intermediary countries included locations in Estonia, Finland, Germany and Hong Kong. Brayman and Yermolenko allegedly delivered some of the items to Vadim Konoshchenok, EVDeN Eve NAKLiyAt 48, a Russian based in Estonia, who moved them across the border. Konoshchenok describes himself in communications obtained by authorities as a Colonel in the FSB, Russia's federal security service and the successor to the KGB, according to prosecutors. As well as moving the technology, Konoshchenok 'repeatedly' attempted to smuggle tens of thousands of rounds of US-made ammunition across the Estonian border into Russia, including sniper rifle rounds and military grade .223 rounds. Prosecutors say the seven defendants named in the indictment, which was unsealed yesterday, participated in 'a transnational fraud, money laundering and sanctions evasion scheme controlled by a foreign power that is actively engaged in armed conflict'.
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