EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: GOLD GLOBE

UNCLAS MOSCOW 001087 SIPDIS USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES/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: GOLD GLOBE COMPLETE, MOSCOW, RUSSIA. REFTELS: USDOC 0534 ¶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, Gold Globe Complete, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license applications: NLR as the ultimate consignee of 15 electronic integrated circuits and devices, micro assemblies and digital field programmable gate arrays. These items are controlled for national security, anti-terrorism, missile technology and nuclear proliferation reasons under ECCN 3A001. The licensee is Actel Corporation, 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043. ¶3. On April 22, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment verification at the offices of Gold Globe Complete, 16, Krasnoproletarskaya Street, Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Andrey Popkov, General Director and Sergey Philippov, Sales Director. ¶4. Gold Globe Complete (GGC) was established in 1993 as an electronic components distributor. GGC employs 250 people and has offices in Moscow and 4 other major cities in Russia. The Moscow complex occupies three floors of a multi-unit office building with manned security and an electronic access system. GGC offices have a secure storage area for dual-use items. ¶5. GGC produces integrated circuit boards and household appliances from the technology that they purchase from the U.S. and Europe. Andrey Popkov, General Director, provided the export control team with company catalogs, which will be placed in the end use check file. ¶6. GGC also publishes technical manuals, books and magazines, some of which were provided to the export control team by Andrey Popkov. ¶7. Andrey Popkov told the export control team that the end user of the reftel commodity is the Russian company FGUP NII QSubmikron (Scientific Research Institute QSubmikronQ) located in Zelenograd, Moscow Region, Russia. ¶8. The export control team found no indication of impropriety at GGC. Andrey PopkovQs answers were not evasive, and the export control team was provided full access to the facilities. ¶9. Recommendations: Post recommends Gold Globe Complete, Moscow, Russia, as a reliable recipient of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. (FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON) BEYRLE