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