EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SWEMEL INNOVATION

UNCLAS MOSCOW 001572

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: SWEMEL INNOVATION
ENTERPRISE, MOSCOW, RUSSIA.

REFTELS: REQUEST #4210008; DATED 4/30/2009


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, Swemel Innovation
Enterprise, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license
applications: D401620 as the foreign purchaser of one arbitrary
waveform generator, with options and accessories, model no:
AWG7102.10.0 GS/S (20 GS/S interleaved),8/10-BIT, 32 m point,
2-channel. This item is controlled for national security and
anti-terrorism reasons under ECCN 3A002. The licensee is Tektronix
Inc., 1415 SW Karl Braun Drive, Howard Vollum Park, Beaverton, OR

97076.


3. On June 10, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES
Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment
verification at FCS office, Bolshoy Devyatinsky pereulok 8, Moscow,
Russia. The export control team met with Vladimir Marilovtsev,
Director, Swemel Innovation Enterprise and Dmitry Ershov, General
Director, Master-Tool Ltd, Swemel Group.


4. Swemel Innovation Enterprise is part of the Swemel Group, and was
established in 1998. Swemel Goup employs approximately 120 people in
4 companies: Swemel Innovation Enterprise, Sinclit, Acti-Master and
Master-Tool Ltd. Swemel Group has been a distributor of Tektronix
equipment for many years. Dmitry Ershov provided the export control
team with copies of trade magazine articles and advertisements that
clearly indicate his companyQs relationship with Tektronix as a
distributor of its products. Vladimir Marilovtsev stated that Swemel
Group has an in-house compliance program in place to receive
licensable dual use commodities from the United States. Marilovtsev
indicated knowledge of the end use restrictions on licensable U.S
origin dual use commodities.


5. The commodity in reftel was purchased by Master-Tool Ltd for the
end user VNIIFTRI, the Russian Scientific Institute for Physical and
Radio Measurements. VNIIFTRI will use the reftel commodity to
develop and maintain standards of measurement methodology across a
broad range of fields, including time, frequency, acoustic, radio
and electric and magnetism.


6. The export control team found that the reftel commodity is being
used for the end use for which it was licensed, there are no
indications of impropriety, and the consigneeQs answers were not
evasive.


7. Recommendations: Post recommends Swemel Innovation Enterprise,
Moscow, Russia, as a reliable recipient of sensitive U.S. origin
commodities.
(FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON)
BEYRLE