A second conspirator has been arrested in a scheme to launder funds for the fugitive "Gas King of Ukraine," Sergey Kurchenko through a Florida metals service center.
Sergey Karpushkin, a Belarusian citizen from Miami, has been arrested for engaging in a scheme to violate U.S. sanctions against the oligarch and two related companies by purchasing over $150 million in steelmaking materials. Karpushkin's alleged co-conspirator, John C. Unsalan, was indicted and arrested earlier in April.
Kurchenko was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in 2015 for misappropriating Ukrainian state assets, and the two sanctioned companies were designated by OFAC in 2018 for supporting separatist-controlled regions in eastern Ukraine.
Karpushkin and Unsalan both face charges under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and, if convicted, could face up to 20 years in federal prison for each count.
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