Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09MOSCOW324
2009-02-11 07:49:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:  

EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LINK EXPRESS,

Tags:  BEXP ETRD ETTC RS 
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DE RUEHMO #0324 0420749
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 110749Z FEB 09
FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW
TO RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC PRIORITY
INFO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1854
RHMFIUU/US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION WASHINGTON DC
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

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