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