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DE RUEHMO #1960 2111232
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 301232Z JUL 09
FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW
TO RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC PRIORITY
INFO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4406
RHMFIUU/US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION WASHINGTON DC

UNCLAS MOSCOW 001960 
 
SIPDIS 
 
USDOC FOR 532/OEA/LRITTER 
USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA 
USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN 
USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: T.K.BRUKVOOD, 
MOSCOW, RUSSIA. 
 
REFTELS: REQUEST FORM #04210011; DATED 5/14/2009 
 
¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is 
prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 
 
¶2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the 
legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, T.K. Brukvood, Moscow, 
Russia. The company is listed on BIS license applications: NLR as 
the ultimate consignee of thirty two IB cable 4X 1M, CNDCTR: fitted 
w/connector, volts and transmission equipment. These items are 
controlled for anti-terrorism reasons under ECCN 5A991. The licensee 
is Voltaire Inc., 6 Fortune Drive, Billerica, MA 01821. 
 
¶3. On June 25, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES 
Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment 
verification at the offices of T.K. Brukvood, 4, Ilyinka Street, 
Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Ionas Varikoos, 
General Director. 
 
 
¶4. T.K. Brukvood was founded in 1995 as a closed joint stock company 
specializing in transportation services. It has 65 employees at 
various offices throughout Moscow, Russia. As the transportation 
company grew, it expanded into investment projects and the 
electronics distribution market. T.K. BrukvoodQs offices are located 
in prime real estate very close to the Kremlin. It has a secure 
warehouse at a separate location that the Moscow export control team 
did not see. The Qship toQ address on the invoice is a mail drop 
facility that T.K. Brukvood uses to receive shipments. 
 
¶5. The end user of the commodities in reftel is JSC QBirs KomQ, 
Michurinsky pr. 8/29, Moscow, Russia, a long time customer of T.K. 
Brukvood. The stated end use was cabling upgrade on an existing 
electronics system. The reftel commodities will remain in Russia. 
 
¶6. The Moscow export control team did not inspect the reftel 
commodities because they had been forwarded to the end user in 2006. 
There were no indications of impropriety and the consigneeQs answers 
were not evasive. 
 
¶7. Recommendations: Post recommends T.K. Brukvood, Moscow, Russia, 
as a reliable recipient of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. 
(FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON) 
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