HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Federal authorities arrested a Belarusian national living in South Florida over the weekend after they said he illegally arranged the shipment of a sensitive piece of scientific equipment to Russia.
U.S. Marshals took Kirill Gordei, 35, of Hallandale Beach, into custody on Sunday, Broward jail records show. He’s facing multiple charges in Boston federal court.
Gordei, who runs a freight forwarding company called Apelsin Logistics Inc., is accused of facilitating the shipment of a mass spectrometer to a Moscow-based “producer and distributor of building blocks, novel reactive intermediates for combinatorial chemistry and discovery research in life sciences.”
