EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LINK EXPRESS,

UNCLAS MOSCOW 000324 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 E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LINK EXPRESS, KIEV, UKRAINE, LICENSE NO. NLR REFTEL: USDOC 0238 ¶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, Link Express, Kiev, Ukraine. The company is listed on BIS license application: NLR as the ultimate consignee of fifty (50) I.C. DIV 2 prescaler, DC, electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed signals. Fifty (50) I.C., SMT double-balanced mixers, electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted and other mixed signals. One hundred (100) I.C., MSOP8 SMT mixers, electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed signals. One hundred (100) I.C., DIV 4 prescaler DC, electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed signals. One hundred (100) I.C., SMT double-balanced mixers, electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed signals. Three hundred (300) I.C., MSOP switches and electronic integrated circuit and other mixed signals. Thirty (30) integrated circuit 24 lead, 4X4electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed signals. One hundred (100) I.C., digital attenuator electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and other mixed signals. ECCN: none given. The exporter is Hittite Microwave Corporation, 20 Alpha Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824. ¶3. On January 30, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES Yuriy Prikhodko conducted the requested post-shipment verification with Link Express, Polevaya Street 21, Office 305, Kiev, Ukraine. The export control team met with Yurily Petrushevsky, General Director. ¶4. Link Express was founded in 1999 as a privately held Limited Liability Corporation. Link Express is involved in radio, television and satellite system installation. Link Express has 25 employees and is certified by the National Manufacture of Sub-Stations in Kiev, Ukraine. Link Express was considered the 5th channel during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine when they were the only television station to broadcast the events outside of the Ukraine. ¶5. Yurily Petrushevsky, General Director, advised the export control team that the commodities in reftel will be used to produce amplifiers and other components for satellite systems. Petrushevsky gave the export control team a tour of his laboratory and production facility where the amplifiers are produced and tested. ¶6. The export control team determined 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 Link Express, Kiev, Ukraine as reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. (FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON) BEYRLE