WANTED: ARTEM ALEKSANDROVICH USS
REWARD OF UP TO $7,000,000
NAME: Artem Aleksandrovich Uss
ALIASES: Artyom Uss
DOB: April 22, 1982
POB: Russia
NATIONALITY: Russia
CITIZENSHIP: Russia
HEIGHT: 5’10”
WEIGHT: 180 lbs
HAIR COLOR: Brown
EYE COLOR: Blue/Green
Artem Uss is the son of a Russian politician who served as the governor of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Krai region. Uss had ownership interests in several Russian companies in Krasnoyarsk Krai and elsewhere, including a coal mining company in Krasnoyarsk. Uss also held a senior position with a subsidiary of a Russian state-controlled oil conglomerate. The FBI determined Uss was a close associate of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Uss orchestrated a transnational fraud, smuggling, and money laundering operation under the umbrella of Nord-Deutsche Industrieanlagenbau GmbH (NDA GmbH), a privately held industrial equipment and commodity trading company located in Hamburg, Germany. As owner of NDA GmbH with another co-conspirator, Uss engaged in a variety of activities in violation of U.S. criminal laws and U.S. and other sanctions, including: 1) the unlawful export of millions of U.S. dollars in military and sensitive dual-use technologies from the United States to Russia; and 2) the use of the U.S. financial system to smuggle millions of barrels of oil from Venezuela.
On September 26, 2022, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York returned a 12-count sealed indictment against Uss and six other co-defendants. Uss was charged with four counts: 1) conspiracy to defraud a department or agency of the United States; 2) conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA); 3) conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and 4) conspiracy to commit money laundering for the oil smuggling and IEEPA scheme.
The U.S. Department of State is offering a REWARD OF UP TO $7,000,000 for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Artem Aleksandrovich Uss.
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