EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LEKIS, KIEV,

UNCLAS MOSCOW 000319 SIPDIS USDOC FOR 532/OEA/M.HAMES/L.RITTER USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST KYIV FOR FCS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LEKIS, KIEV, UKRAINE, LICENSE NO. NLR REFTEL: USDOC 0241 ¶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, Lekis, Kiev, Ukraine. The company is listed on BIS license application: NLR as the ultimate consignee of fifty (50) GAAS PHEMT MMIC LNA, 7-12 GHZ amplifiers, twenty (20) integrated circuits, amplifiers, thirty (30) GAAS MMIC PHEMT LNA 6-20 GHZ, thirty (30) integrated circuits, twenty (20) I.C. DC-2.5 GHZ VSP8T QSOP24 SMY PKG, electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted and other mixed signals, ten (10) GAAS PHEMT LNA, 2-4 GHZ electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted signals, ten (10) SMT PHEMT LNA, 2-4 GHZ electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted mixed signals, twenty (20) integrated circuit: n/unmounted mixed signals, thirty (30) 9.91-9.9 GHZ VCO with RF/2 electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted and other mixed signals. ECCN is not given. The exporter is Hittite Microwave Corporation, 20 Alpha Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824. ¶3. On January 28, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES Yuriy Prikhodko conducted the requested post-shipment verification with Lekis, 8 Lepse Av, Kiev, Ukraine. The export control team met with Boris Cherniy, General Director, at the office of the Foreign Commercial Service, Kiev, Ukraine. ¶4. Boris Cherniy, General Director of Lekis advised the export control team that Lekis was founded in 1999 as a high tech company involved in microwave technology. Lekis has 10 full time employees on the payroll and hires additional contract engineers depending on contract work. Cherniy stated that Lekis is a privately held company with offices located within the Laboratory of Electronic Components and Subsystems, a large research center that is part of the Ukraine defense sector. ¶5. Cherniy stated that Lekis places microwave technology in subsystems to include transmitters, diode generators, synchronized frequency generators, amplifiers and broadband for mobile technology. Cherniy stated that Lekis has received government contracts and has produced components for the Ministry of Transportation that measures speed and friction for the locomotive industry. Lekis has also been contracted by the National Space Agency to better convert data received from satellite transmissions. ¶6. Lekis appears to have the technological and commercial sophistication required for use of the reftel commodity. They also have a legitimate need and a legitimate end use of subject commodity. ¶7. The export control team was unable to visit the office location of Lekis because of its location within a secure government facility with restricted access. ¶8. Recommendations: Post recommends Lekis, Kiev, Ukraine as reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. (FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON) BEYRLE